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Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan - Head of the Department of Foreign Policy Affairs

Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS)

Deputy Speaker of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Executive Director, the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication of the Republic of Azerbaijan (CAERC)

Deputy Chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti), Head of Relations with Turkic States, Member of Parliament for Ankara

Director of the Institute for Development and Diplomacy (IDD) (Azerbaijan)

Chairman of the Center of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center) (Azerbaijan)

Chairman of the Center for Strategic Research (SAM) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye
Chairman of the Center for Strategic Research (SAM) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye
Ramazan Erdağ is a Turkish academic and expert in international relations currently serving as Chairman of the Center for Strategic Research. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Anadolu University and completed his master’s and PhD in International Relations at Sakarya University, later becoming a faculty member at Eskişehir Osmangazi University in 2012. Between 2014 and 2015, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Arms Control, Decontamination, and International Security Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Erdağ’s academic and professional work focuses on international relations, Middle East politics, Turkish foreign policy, regional security, and geopolitical studies, and he has authored numerous scholarly publications while actively participating in international policy discussions.