Seren Selvin Korkmaz is co-founder and board member of the IstanPol Institute. She held the position of executive director from January 2018 until November 2023.
Korkmaz is a researcher at Stockholm University’s Institute for Turkish Studies. In 2023, Korkmaz was honored as a Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. Her previous appointments include positions as a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C., a Fox International Fellow at Yale University, and a research fellow at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. She works with international and domestic actors as political analyst and advisor on a broad range of issues, trends and developments with a special focus on internal Turkish political dynamics.