Mustafa Kemal Akbulut is a policy officer in the Education and Youth Department at the Ministry for European Union Affairs in Turkey. His professional area of expertise covers education and youth policy in the EU, Turkey and the partner countries neighboring the EU and he is mainly responsible for Transnational Cooperation Activities in the field of youth. Before starting to work at the Ministry for EU Affairs, he represented the Republic of Turkey in the 25th Ship for World Youth Programme in Japan in 2013. During his undergraduate studies he studied in the Department of International Relations and European Integration at the University of Stuttgart in Germany as an Erasmus exchange student and holds a bachelor degree in International Relations from Ankara University. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Social Policy at Middle East Technical University. His research interests are education and youth policy in the EU and Turkey, development, EU social policy, EU governance and institutions, social policy in Turkey and international political economy
