Asli Selin Okyay

Asli Selin Okyay

Asli Selin Okyay is a Senior Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). Her research and publications focus on migration dynamics and governance in the wider Euro-Mediterranean context; in particular, on the external dimension of EU migration and asylum policies and its intersection with EU foreign policy at large. At the IAI, she has conducted and coordinated research in several Horizon 2020 projects such as MEDRESET, EU IDEA, ITFLOWSand BRIDGES, led the foreign policy pillar of the project ‘A New European Consensus on Migration and Asylum’, and currently acts as team leader in Nexus25. She was previously a Research Associate at the ERC-funded Borderlands project at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Asli obtained her Ph.D. (2015) in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, her M.Phil in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford (2009), and her B.A. (2005) in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University.