Ahmet İlkay Ceyhan

Ahmet İlkay Ceyhan studied at Charles de Gaulle University in Lille, France then, Bahçeşehir University, Department of Political Science and International Relations. He completed his undergraduate degree with the thesis titled "The Enlargement of NATO and What Will Its Future?" He obtained his master's degree in the European Union and International Relations Department at L'Institut Européenne Des Haute Etudes Internationales in Nice, France, by completing his studies on "Turkey's Accession Process: The Political Transformation in Case of Accession Process to EU Comparison Between Turkey and Greece". Ceyhan completed his PhD at Istanbul University Faculty of Communication with the thesis titled "Public Diplomacy in Political Communication." Furthermore he worked as a researcher at George Washington University (Washington-USA) in 2013, Corvinus University (Hungary) and Warsaw University (Poland) in 2015. He is still working as an Associate Prof. of Political Communication and the Head of Public Relations and Advertising Department at Istanbul Kent University. His focus is on political communication, strategic communication, nation-branding, digital media, media diplomacy, public diplomacy, propaganda, agenda-setting, and digital politics. At the same time, he provides communication consultancy to many institutions in various sectors on crisis communication, strategic communication, corporate communication and political advertising. Ceyhan speaks fluent French and English, beginner level Spanish.