Galip Dalay works as a research director at Al Sharq Forum, senior associate fellow at Al Jazeera Center for Studies, and non-resident fellow at Brookings Institution, Doha Center. His research interests include Turkish Politics, Turkish Foreign Policy, Regional Kurdish politics, Regionalism, Regional Order and Political Regimes in Middle East, Political Islam, and Radical Movements. He previously worked as a visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, guest scholar at Institute for Human Science (IWM) in Vienna, and as a political researcher at SETA Foundation in Ankara. He is a regular contributor to German Marshall Fund’s On Turkey policy brief series.

Dalay completed his undergraduate studies at Istanbul University, his MSc at the London School of Economics and Political Science and his Doctorate in International Relations at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.

His pieces have appeared on Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera, Open Democracy, Middle East Eye, Huffington Post, The World Politics Review, and Fair Observer.