Dr. Tolga Bilener is the Director of the Center for Strategic Research at Galatasaray University. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Istanbul University and earned his master’s degrees in International Relations from Galatasaray University and Paris-II Panthéon-Assas University as a recipient of the European Commission’s Jean Monnet Scholarship. He received his Ph.D. from Grenoble-Alpes University with a dissertation on Türkiye-China relations.
Dr. Bilener teaches courses on the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, Middle East studies, international security, the history of diplomacy, and the history of political thought.
He has published, co-authored, and co-edited several books, including La Turquie et la Chine: une nouvelle convergence en Eurasie? (2019), Diplomacy and International Treaties in Ancient Anatolia according to Kültepe Tablets (2020), Global South and Emerging Powers (2021), and Thematic Analysis of Turkish Foreign Policy (2024), in addition to numerous scholarly articles and book chapters.