Sinan Ülgen
 Sinan Ülgen     (academic, diplomat, deep state functionary) | |
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| Nationality | Turkish |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia, College of Europe |
| Member of | Bosphorus Institute, European Council on Foreign Relations |
| Interests | Turkey |
Turkish diplomat on the supranational think tank circuit | |
Sinan Ülgen is a Turkish diplomat and academic with significant ties to the supranational deep state [1].
Education
Sinan Ülgen graduated in 1987 from the University of Virginia with a double major in computer sciences and economics. He undertook graduate studies at the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium where he received, in 1990, a masters degree in European economic integration.
Career
He then joined the Turkish Foreign Service as a career diplomat. 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. Ulgen is the founder and managing partner of Istanbul Economics. The consultancy specializes in market entry strategies for international companies, political and economic risk analysis related to Turkey and regulatory affairs.
Deep State ties
Ulgen is also the chairman of the Istanbul based think tank, Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) and a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where he concentrated on Turkish foreign policy, nuclear policy, cyberpolicy, and transatlantic relations. His research and opinion pieces have been published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Center for European Policy Studies, Center for European Reform, the Atlantic Council, German Marshall Fund, Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum as well as newspapers such as Le Figaro, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, European Voice, Project Syndicate and the International New York Times.
He is also the co-author of a book on Turkey-EU relations with Kemal Dervis and a frequent commentator on Turkish affairs in the international press. Ulgen served on the academic advisory board member of the NATO Defence College in Rome. He was a member of the Europe Council of the World Economic Forum. He was also a member of the international policy experts group setup by the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Ülgen is also the author of Governing Cyberspace: A Road Map for Transatlantic Leadership (2016)[2]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2017 | 1 June 2017 | 4 June 2017 | US Virginia Chantilly | The 65th Bilderberg Meeting |
| Brussels Forum/2007 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. | ||
| Brussels Forum/2012 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. |
