BAHADIR KALEAGASI

Turkish Industry & Business Association -TUSIAD Representative to the EU and BUSINESSEUROPE

Brussels

T : + 32 2 736 4047 F : + 32 2 736 3993 [email protected] www.tusiad.org

Dr Bahadir Kaleagasi is a gradute of and Universities. He worked as researcher and lecturer at the Center for International & Strategic Studies and the Institute of European Studies of the University of Brussels and was visiting academic to Harvard, Georgetown and Jerusalem Universities. His work covered the following main areas: theories of international relations, EU’s decision-making system, EU-US relations and the external economic relations of the EU.

He was awarded the ’s Jean Monnet Scholarship and NATO Research Fellowship for his academic accomplishments, took part in several EU projects and the European Commission’s Forward Studies Unit, was a rapporteur of the working groups for the intergovernmental conferences which led to the Maastricht Treaty establishing the and served as European affairs counsellor to several public and private institutions

Since 1996, he is the permanent representative of TUSIAD (Turkish Industrialists’ & Business Association) to the European Union and BUSINESSEUROPE (Confederation of European Business) in Brussels and coordinator of TUSIAD offices in Berlin, Paris, Washington DC and Beijing. He is also a scientific member at the University of Brussels, founding president of the Turkish environmental protection organisation TEMA’s Brussels branch and a board member of the JCl- Europe and Forum Istanbul, ’s high-level economic and political forum.

Bahadir Kaleagasi has several scientific publications on the international and European questions. He is also the co-author of the books entitled “Towards a New Europe” (PUB, 1993), “Les Défis de l’Elargissement de l’Union européenne” (PUB, 1994) and “La Turquie en Mouvement” (Ed. Complex, Paris, 1995), “La République laïque turque” (Ed. Complexe, Paris, 2003), author of “From Single Market to Monetary Union” (IKV, Istanbul, 1995), “The Roadmap to Europe” (Dünya, Istanbul, 2003), “European Galaxy and the Turkish Star” (Dogan Kitap, Istanbul, 2007) and is a regular commentator for the Turkish daily Radikal, the monthly economic review Finans Dünyası and several web-sites.

He regularly contributes as speaker to international conferences, executive and academic seminars, television and radio programmes and professional training courses and acts as an adviser for international business communication and development projects.