Welcoming of the 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellows
The Welcoming of the 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellows was held on October 10 at the Seed, Sakıp Sabancı Museum. The extension of the Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative until 2021 was also announced during the event. The event began with the welcoming remarks by IPC Director Fuat Keyman and followed by remarks from the Chairman of the Advisory Board at Stiftung Mercator, Rüdiger Frohn. An alumni movie, which exhibited former Mercator-IPC Fellows and their projects, was screened after the welcoming remarks. The 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellows were introduced to the audience through another movie screening. The movie presented the 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellows Kristen Biehl, Wiebke Hohberger, Magdalena Kirchner, Emre Üçkardeşler, Tuğba Ağaçayak, and Sarah Louise Nash and their projects. After the event ended, the distinguished guests enjoyed a meet and greet open buffet dinner.
Fuat Keyman
Fuat Keyman is the Director of the Istanbul Policy Center; Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Social Impact, and Professor of International Relations at Sabancı University. Keyman is a leading political scientist in Turkey and an expert on globalization, democratization, international relations, Turkey – EU relations, Turkish foreign policy, and civil society development.
Kristen Biehl
Kristen Biehl is an anthropologist specializing in migration and urban studies. She is currently working as an assistant professor at Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and a researcher at Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender)
kristen.biehl@sabanciuniv.edu
Wiebke Hohberger
Wiebke Hohberger is currently in the final stage of her PhD at Hamburg University in European and Turkish history. In her doctoral thesis she analyses Turkey’s role in the Council of Europe in terms of social constructions of European identity.
wiebkehohberger@gmail.com
Magdalena Kirchner
Dr. Magdalena Kirchner was appointed the Director for Europe in the World at Stiftung Mercator in January 2024.
m.kirchner@fes-afghanistan.org
Emre Üçkardeşler
Emre Üçkardeşler is a social scientist working on public policy. He works as a researcher and consultant on education and social policy.
Emre Üçkardeşler
Tuğba Ağaçayak
Tuğba Ağaçayak is an environmental engineer and climate scientist. Her research focuses on air pollution and climate change.
tugbaagacayak@gmail.com
Sarah Louise Nash
Sarah Louise Nash is a political scientist working on climate change politics and policy, especially at the intersection of climate change and human mobilities, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna.
sarah.nash@boku.ac.at