Dr. Oguzhan Goksel is Assistant Professor of Political Economy & IR at Marmara University, Faculty of Economics, Turkey. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of New Middle Eastern Studies (NMES) journal based in the UK. He completed his multi-disciplinary Ph.D. degree on Political Science and Political Economy at Durham University, UK in 2015. Goksel’s works have been published in various edited books and SSCI-indexed international peer-reviewed journals such as Mediterranean Politics, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Turkish Studies. He is the co-editor of the books entitled "Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation" (New York: Lexington Books, 2024) and "Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East: Political Encounters after the Arab Spring" (New York: Springer, 2018) and ". Goksel's main areas of research are modernisation and non-Western modernities, political economy of development, historical sociology, foreign policy analysis and comparative politics.

Dr. Oguzhan Goksel is Assistant Professor of Political Economy & IR at Marmara University, Faculty of Economics, Turkey. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of New Middle Eastern Studies (NMES) journal based in the UK. He completed his multi-disciplinary Ph.D. degree on Political Science and Political Economy at Durham University, UK in 2015. Goksel’s works have been published in various edited books and SSCI-indexed international peer-reviewed journals such as Mediterranean Politics, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Turkish Studies. He is the co-editor of the books entitled "Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation" (New York: Lexington Books, 2024) and "Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East: Political Encounters after the Arab Spring" (New York: Springer, 2018) and ". Goksel's main areas of research are modernisation and non-Western modernities, political economy of development, historical sociology, foreign policy analysis and comparative politics.

Sedat Aybar, Professor of Economics and Finance, BSc. (Econ), MA (London), PhD (London), is the Director of Asia-Pacific-Africa Research Center at Bahçeşehir University where he also teaches at the Department of Economics. He was the Director of African Studies Centre and Director of China Study Center at Istanbul Aydin University. In Türkiye, he has started the first Africa Research Center and China Research Center that are incorporated within a university structure. He taught, researched and published on a variety of topics that includes, International Economics, Banking and Finance in Economic Development, Development Economics, Central Bank Independence, African economies and Political Economy of Turkey. He has taught in South Korea, Poland, Republic of China, Lithuania, United States, as well as in the UK and Turkiye. He has worked as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Overseas Development Agency (ODA) and the UNDP. He was the Director of joint Executive MBA Program of Kadir Has University with Fordham University of New York. He teaches distant study courses at graduate level at University of London’s (SOAS), Centre for Finance and International Management (CeFiMS). He worked in the banking industry in London at managerial level for almost ten years. He also worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), in London, England. He is currently the country team leader (Turkey) for a joint research project, Emerging Markets Global Players (EMGP) with the Vale Columbia Centre of the Columbia University in New York. He is the founder editor of Florya Chronicles of Political Economy, an academic periodical published in English.