Dr Bahadir Kaleagasi is President of the Bosphorus Institute (Paris–Istanbul) and lecturer at the Galatasaray University on the international economic relations, sustainable development, and the European integration. He is also Brussels Energy Club’s Honorary President, scientific member of the Brussels University’s Institute of European Studies and board or advisory member in several institutions, including the ECFR-European Council on Foreign Relations, The Atlantic Council, Habitat, Argüden Governance Academy, Global Relations Forum, Kalangos Foundation, Yanindayiz/HeForShe, Women on Board Association, Forum Istanbul, Berlin Bosphorus Initiative, IstanPol Research Institute, BusinessLife magazine… Graduate of Brussels and Istanbul Universities, he was a researcher and lecturer in the