Meltem Müftüler-Baç is Professor of International Relations and Jean Monnet chair at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, and an Affiliate Professor at University of Stockholm from 2013 to 2016. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Temple University, USA in 1992. She worked previously at Temple University (USA), Bilkent University (Turkey), and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. Prof. Müftüler-Baç authored Turkey’s Relations with a Changing Europe published by the Manchester University Press in 1997, and Turkey and the European Union Relations: Dilemmas, Opportunities and Constraints, co-edited with Yannis Stivachtis and published by Lexington books in 2008. Her publications appeared in the Journal of European Public Policy, Middle Eastern Studies, Turkish Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum, West European Politics, and the Journal of Democracy amongst others. Prof. Müftüler-Baç was awarded the Jean Monnet Professor ad personam title by the European Commission in 2004.