The Welcoming of the 2020/21 Mercator-IPC Fellows
The Welcoming of the 2020/21 Mercator-IPC Fellows was held on October 19 at The Seed. The event began with welcoming remarks by Yusuf Leblebici, followed by remarks from Fuat Keyman and Michael Schwarz. The event continued with a speech by Mercator-IPC Visiting Senior Fellow Pankaj Mishra and a Q&A section moderated by Senior Scholar Senem Aydın-Düzgit. The speech was followed by a movie screening that introduced the 2020/21 Mercator-IPC Fellows Ahmet Atıl Aşıcı, David Samuel Williams, Elena Dück, Jan Schierkolk, Karolína Augustová, Michael Kaeding, and Özge Geyik.
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
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the Allahabad University before completing his MA in English Literature at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
Ahmet Atıl Aşıcı
Ahmet Atıl Aşıcı has worked as an associate professor of economics at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Management Engineering since 2009. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 2007.
asici@itu.edu.tr
David Samuel Williams
David Samuel Williams was born in Germany to British and Irish parents. David studied for a BSc in Geography at the University of Salford, Manchester, before completing an MSc in Global Transformation and Environmental Change at the University of Hamburg.
david.williams@posteo.net
Elena Dück
Elena Dück is a political scientist with a focus on foreign policy analysis. Since 2015, she has been managing the double master’s program in Intercultural Management at the Turkish-German University and the University of Passau.
elena.dueck@uni-passau.de
Jan Schierkolk
Jan Schierkolk is an educator and social entrepreneur focusing on building international and transcultural bridges and on empowering especially young people to become engaged locally and across borders.
jschierkolk@pm.me
Karolína Augustová
Karolína Augustová completed her PhD in Sociology and International Relations at Aston University (Birmingham, UK) with a thesis on border violence against refugees along the European Union’s border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2019, she held a visiting fellowship at the Institute for Migration Studies, Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon.
augustok@aston.ac.uk
Özge Geyik
Özge Geyik, Avustralya’daki Deakin Üniversitesi Yaşam ve Çevre Bilimleri Okulu’nda doktora adayıdır ve çalışmalarında sürdürülebilir ve beslenmeye duyarlı gıda sistemlerine odaklanmaktadır.
ogeyik@deakin.edu.au