Born in 1972 in Istanbul, Çağrı Erhan graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations in 1993. He completed his master’s degree in international relations at the same university in 1996 with a thesis entitled “The Opium Problem in Turkish-American Relations”. In 2000, with his thesis titled “Ottoman-American Political Relations”, he received his PhD degree from Hacettepe University, Department of History. He became an associate professor of political history in 2003 and a professor in the same field in 2009. He received the “History Foundation Afet Inan” award in 2001, the “SAM Strategic Vision” award in 2013 and the European Union Jean Monnet Chair in 2014. Çağrı Erhan has been a researcher and guest lecturer at Georgetown, Tel-Aviv, Tokyo Chuo, TOBB ETÜ and Bahçeşehir Universities, and has also worked as an executive in projects supported by the EU, TÜBİTAK, Ministry of Youth and Sports and Development Agency. Between 1994 and 2015, Prof. Erhan worked as a lecturer at Ankara University and between 2005 and 2015 he was the director of the European Community Research and Application Centre (ATAUM). Prof. Erhan has held various positions in organisations such as the Eurasian Strategic Research Centre (ASAM), Atatürk Culture, Language and History Supreme Council, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkish Military History Commission, Turkish Atlantic Association and Council of Europe. As of June 2015, he was appointed as the Rector of Istanbul Kemerburgaz University. He is the author of several books on Turkish Foreign Policy, political history and international relations.