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Discussant BiographiesSinan Ülgen, Chairman, Center for Economics and Foreign Policy StudiesSinan Ülgen graduated in 1987 from the University of Virginia with a double major in computer sciences and economics. Heundertook graduate studies at the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium, where he received a master’s degree in Europeaneconomic integration in 1990. He then joined the Turkish Foreign Service as a career diplomat. In 1992 he was posted tothe Turkish Permanent Delegation to the European Union in Brussels, where he became part of the team that negotiated theTurkey-EU customs union.Mr. Ülgen is the founder and managing partner of Istanbul Economics. The consultancy specializes in market entry strategiesfor international companies, and political and economic risk analysis related to Turkey and regulatory affairs.Mr. Ülgen currently the chairman of the Istanbul based think tank, Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM).His research and opinion pieces have been published by the Center for European Policy Studies, Center for European Reform,the Atlantic Council, German Marshall Fund, Brookings and the World Economic Forum, as well as newspapers such as LeFigaro, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, European Voice and the International Herald Tribune. He is also the co-author of abook on Turkey-EU relations with Kemal Dervis.Özgür Ünlühisarcıklı, Ankara Office Director, German Marshall Fund of the United StatesÖzgür Ünlühisarcıklı is the director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States’ office in Ankara, Turkey. Prior tojoining GMF, Mr. Ünlühisarcıklı was the manager of the Resource Development Department of the Educational VolunteersFoundation of Turkey. Previously, Mr. Ünlühisarcıklı worked as the director of the ARI Movement, a Turkish NGO aiming topromote participatory democracy, and as a consultant at AB Consulting and Investment Services. After graduating from RobertCollege (Istanbul), Mr. Ünlühisarcıklı received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Marmara University andhis master’s degree from Koç University. Mr. Ünlühisarcıklı speaks fluent English in addition to his native Turkish.Barçın Yinanç, Associate Editor, Daily News and Economic ReviewBarçın Yinanç works as the Associate Editor of the English language Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review. She is alsoa columnist for Referans Gazetesi, a business paper. Previously she worked for CNN Türk as a news program editor. Beforemoving to Istanbul in 2005, Ms. Yinanç worked in Ankara for 15 years as a diplomatic reporter. She worked in Milliyet, one ofTurkey’s oldest newspapers, as well as TV8 and CNN Türk. As a diplomatic reporter, she covered Turkish foreign policy issues,including Turkey’s EU bid, and relations with the United States, Middle East, and Caucasus.Dr. Hayat Zengin, Assistant Professor, Dokuz Eylül UniversityAssistant Professor Hayat Zengin was born in Germany. She completed her primary and high school education in Izmir,and graduated from the Dokuz Eylül University Department of Architecture, City and Regional Planning in Izmir in 1990.She started to worked as an assistant at the same department in 1991 and received her master’s degree in 1994. She has beenworking as an assistant professor at the Department of City and Regional Planning since 2003, and has been contributing tograduate and undergraduate programs in Architectural Faculty of Erciyes University for two years.24 | T h e T R a n s a t l a n t i c f o r u m o n M i g r a t i o n a n d I n t e g r a t i o n