Meltem Müftüler-Baç is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations / Jean Monnet chair at Sabanci University. She is a graduate of Robert College (1984), received her B.A. in Political Science from Boğaziçi University (1988), M.A. (1989) and Ph.D. (1992) in Political Science / International Relations from Temple University, USA. She was promoted to Associate Profesor in 1996, and Full Professor in 2004. She worked at Bilkent University from 1992 to January 2002 and was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago in 1999-2000, Affiliate professor at University of Stockholm in 2013-2016, and visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Perry World House, in 2019-2020. She joined Sabanci University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in 2002. Prof. Müftüler-Baç has authored Turkey’s Relations with a Changing Europe (Manchester University Press, 1997), Turkey and the European Union Relations: Dilemmas, Opportunities and Constraints, co-edited with Yannis Stivachtis (Lexington Books, 2008), and Diverging Pathways: Turkey and the European Union, Re-Thinking the Dynamics of Turkish-European Union Relations (Budrich Publishers, Berlin, 2016), and co-edited Interparliamentary Cooperation: Parliamentary Cooperation and Diplomacy in EU External Relations, together with Kolja Raube and Jan Wouters in 2019. Her publications have appeared in numerous international outlets and are widely cited. She participates in the EU funded large scale collaborative research projects in Framework programs and has received numerous grants from the EU, both for research and teaching. Prof. Müftüler-Baç holds two prestigious awards from the Turkish Academy of Sciences: Young Social Scientist Investigator Award in 2002 and Distinguished Young Scientist Award in 2003. She was awarded with the Jean Monnet Professor ad personam title from the European Commission in 2004.