Seren Selvin Korkmaz is the co-founder and executive director of IstanPol Institute, an İstanbul based think-tank. She is a doctoral researcher at Stockholm University and teaches Turkish and Middle Eastern politics. Previously a Fox International Fellow at Yale University, she works as non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C. Her research interests include populism, political parties, voter perception, election strategies and political economy of exclusion, youth politics. Through her engagements in a wide spectrum of academic and non-governmental initiatives since 2013, Seren strives to bridge civil society, academia, and public policy through her research outputs and policy recommendations. Until 2017, she was the Turkey director of the Political and Social Research Institute of Europe (PS:EUROPE), an Austria- and Turkey- based institute that she co-founded. She regularly appears as a political commentator both in Turkish and international media such as the Economist, Financial Times, Deutsche Welle, Al-Monitor, Euronews, Halk TV, Medyascope.