İlke Toygür

lke Toygür is an analyst of European Affairs at Elcano Royal Institute and an adjunct professor of Political Science at Carlos III University of Madrid. Her main research areas include European integration, Euroskepticism, political parties and elections in Western Europe, global trends of democracy and authoritarianism, Turkish politics, Turkish foreign policy, and transatlantic relations.

Toygür holds a BA in Economics from Hacettepe University, Ankara and an MA in Economics from Sabancı University, Istanbul. After completing her studies in Economics she worked for more than two years in the Economic Development Foundation (IKV), a Turkish think tank focusing on the European Union and Turkey-EU relations. Prior to her enrollment in the PhD program, she obtained an MA in Political Science from the “Democracy and Government” program of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). In 2016, she completed her PhD degree in Political Science in the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the UAM. During her PhD studies, she was a visiting researcher in the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy and University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany. Toygür writes articles for various international think tanks, newspapers, and periodicals. She is native in Turkish and also speaks fluent English and Spanish.