CANER BAKIR is Associate Professor in the International Relations Department at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has worked as an Assistant Lecturer in the Accounting and Finance Department at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to this, he worked as a banking specialist. His areas of research include institutional analysis, public policy, globalisation and governance. His work has been published in a number of leading journals including
Governance and Public Administration and he has published a book with Bilgi University Press. His research has been supported by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and COST ACTION ISO905 (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). Bakir received the Incentive Award in Political Science awarded by TUBITAK in 2010.