Prof. Ayşe Kadıoğlu of Sabancı University received her PhD in Political Science at Boston University (1990), MA in International Relations at the University of Chicago (1984), and BS in Political Science at Middle East Technical University (1982). She was a Visiting Scholar and Senior Associate Member at the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College in 2005 and 2009-2010. She was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for European Studies in 1992. She has been a regular participant of Yale Law School’s ongoing Middle East Legal Studies Seminar for 8 years (since 2004). She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabancı University.