Sıtkı Egeli

Associate Professor Sitki Egeli is a military and security studies analyst teaching at Izmir University of Economics. Between 1991 and 1999, he served in Turkey’s Undersecretariat for Defense Industries as Director for Foreign Relations, responsible among other things of arms and export controls. 2000 through 2015, he was hired as a senior executive by an international consulting firm specializing in defense and aerospace industries. He holds degrees from Bosphorus University (BA), the University of Chicago (MA), and Bilkent University (PhD). He has several books and articles and took part in task forces on proliferation of WMD and their delivery means, air and missile defense, weaponization of space, emerging and disruptive technologies, defense industry, arms and export controls, and air power.