Mr Hakan Altinay

Hakan Altinay is a professor of the practice at Tufts University in Boston and the Director of the European School of Politics in Istanbul. He has previously served as a senior fellow at Brookings Institution, a world fellow at Yale University, and taught at Boğaziçi, Koç and Sabancı Universities in Istanbul. His book, Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights In An Interdependent World, was published by Brookings Institution Press, and subsequently translated and published in Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. His 2023 book, Medeni (Civic), was published by Iletişim Press. His current interests revolve around what can be achieved through good conversations and generous listening, as well as the opportunity cost of neglecting our civic muscles around these perennial civic practices.