Dr. Bahadir Kaleagasi is president of the Paris Bosphorus Institute and lecturer at the Galatasaray University in Istanbul where he teaches European Union’s international economic relations, globalization and the sustainable development. He is also Brussels Energy Club’s honorary chairperson, European Council on Foreign Relations-ECFR, the Atlantic Council and Global Relations Forum (GIF/GRF) member, board member of Argüden Governance Academy, Women on Board Association, Yanindayiz(HeForShe), Kalangos Foundation, Berlin Bosphorus Initiative and Forum Istanbul, and adviser to several companies, startups and nongovernmental organizations. He was formerly a EU Jean Monnet and NATO scholar, an academic at Université Libre de Bruxelles teaching international relations theories and the EU’s decision-making process and global economic relations, visiting academic at Harvard, Georgetown and Jerusalem universities, researcher for the European Commission’s Forward Studies Unit; successively EU representative, international coordinator (Brussels, Washington DC, Beijing, Shanghai, London, Berlin, Paris, Dubai/Gulf, Silicon Valley/San Francisco), and CEO of Turkey’s main business association TUSIAD; executive board member of BusinessEurope (The Confederation of European Business) and a delegate to OECD and B20/G20. He is author of several books and articles on international affairs, sustainable development, and Turkey.