Sinan ULGEN
In 1992, he was posted to the
Turkish Permanent Delegation to the European Union in Brussels where he became part of the team
that negotiated the Turkey-EU customs union. After that he served at the
Turkish embassy in Tripoli. Ulgen is currently the chairman of
the Istanbul
based think tank, Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM). His
research and opinion pieces have been published by the Center for European
Policy Studies, Center for European Reform, the Atlantic Council, German
Marshall Fund, Brookings and the World Economic Forum as well as newspapers
such as Le Figaro, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, European Voice and the
International Herald Tribune. He is also the co-author of a book on Turkey-EU
relations with Kemal Dervis. Ulgen is also a visiting scholar at Carnegie
Europe in Brussels.