The Welcoming of the 2019/20 Mercator-IPC Fellows
The Welcoming of the 2019/20 Mercator-IPC Fellows was held on October 21, 2019 at Soho Istanbul. The event began with welcoming remarks by Fuat Keyman, followed by remarks from Michael Schwarz, Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Atila Eralp, and Michael Thumann. The welcoming remarks were followed by a movie screening that introduced the 2019/20 Mercator-IPC Fellows Akgün İlhan, Andrea Weiss, Ellen Kollender, Gökçe Uysal, and Sinan Erensü.
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.
Senem Aydın Düzgit
Senem Aydın-Düzgit is the Director of Istanbul Policy Center and a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University.
senem.aydinduzgit@sabanciuniv.edu
Atila Eralp
Atila Eralp is a member of the International Advisory Council of Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initative. He was a Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow at IPC from 2019 to 2023.
atila.eralp@sabanciuniv.edu
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş is a 2019 Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center and a former journalist. She has been a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) since 2015 and a commentator on Turkish domestic and foreign policy.
asli.aydintasbas@sabanciuniv.edu
Michael Thumann
Michael Thumann has been the diplomatic correspondent of Die Zeit since 2013 and is based in Berlin. Prior to that, he reported on Turkey and the Middle East as Die Zeit’s Istanbul Bureau Chief. In 2014/15 and between 1996 and 2001, he reported on Russia and Central Asia as the Moscow Bureau Chief of Die Zeit.
michael.thumann@sabanciuniv.edu
Akgün İlhan
Akgün İlhan is an academic and researcher who has worked on water management, environmental policy and climate change since 2006.
akgun.ilhan@sabanciuniv.edu
Andrea Weiss
Andrea Weiss is a social anthropologist who specializes on the Caucasus and its neighborhood. Her main interests are in political anthropology, borderlands, trans-boundary links, center-periphery relations, economic anthropology, and infrastructure.
andrea.weiss@sabanciuniv.edu
Ellen Kollender
Ellen Kollender is a post-doctoral researcher focusing on educational inequalities in immigration societies, especially on how dynamics of racism and neoliberalism impact social justice and equity in urban school settings.
ellen.kollender@sabanciuniv.edu
Gökçe Uysal
Gökçe Uysal is an economist who works on labor markets, education, and private savings, with a special focus on Turkey. Her work on the labor market has focused on disadvantaged groups, such as women, youth, and refugees
gokce.uysal@sabanciuniv.edu
Sinan Erensü
Sinan Erensü is a political ecologist who received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2016 and an MPhil from Cambridge University in 2006, both in sociology.
sinan.erensu@sabanciuniv.edu