Dr. Ilke Toygür is a Senior Associate with the CSIS Europe Program and a professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid teaching courses on European (geo)politics. Her main areas of expertise include European integration, EU institutions, elections and democracy in Western Europe, geopolitics of Europe, transatlantic relations, and Turkey’s relations with the West. She also serves as a board member of Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) in Brussels.
Dr. Toygür began her career back in 2008 working at the Economic Development Foundation (IKV), a research institute focusing on the European Union. In 2016, she completed her PhD degree in Political Science at Autonomous University of Madrid. Her doctoral research focused on the impact of European integration on the vote and party system change in Western Europe in times of crises. In 2015 she was granted Mercator-IPC Fellowship in Istanbul Policy Center. Following her PhD, she worked for the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid, and for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Brussels. She has been a Visiting Researcher at the European University Institute (EUI), University of Mannheim, and Brookings Institution. Her work has so far appeared in Carnegie Europe, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Brookings Institution, Foreign Affairs, Der Spiegel and El País, among others. She currently advises European governments and EU institutions on contemporary challenges facing Europe. She frequently comments on European affairs in international media. She is native in Turkish and speaks fluent English and Spanish.
PhD in Political Science
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
MA in Democracy and Government
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
MA in Economics
Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey
Erasmus Student Exchange
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria
BS in Economics
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Board Member
Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), Brussels, Belgium
Fellow of Transatlantic Relations Initiative
IE University, Madrid, Spain
Visiting Scholar
Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Visiting Scholar
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
German Institute of International and Security Affairs (SWP) - Berlin, Germany
CATS Fellow
Real Instituto Elcano - Madrid, Spain
Analyst for European Affairs
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
Adjunct Profesor
Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University - Istanbul, Turkey
Mercator - IPC Fellow
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Department of Political Science and International Relations - Madrid, Spain
Researcher
Economic Development Foundation (İKV) - Istanbul, Turkey
Researcher
Economic Development Foundation (İKV) - Brussels, Belgium
EU Expert
Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - Istanbul, Turkey
Teaching Assistant
Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Foreign Relations Department - Ankara, Turkey
Trainee
Turkish Ministry of Treasury and Foreign Trade, International Economic Relations - Ankara, Turkey
Trainee