Dr. Kadir Temiz is President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (ORSAM). He holds a PhD from the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University. He studied at the Institute of International Studies and the Foreign Language School at Peking University, and at Shanghai International Studies University. He previously worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at İstanbul Şehir University, and was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University.
Temiz teaches courses on Politics of East Asia, China in World Politics, Chinese Foreign Policy, and Current Issues in Chinese Foreign Policy at İstanbul Medeniyet University. He is the author of Chinese Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East (Routledge, 2022).