Henri Barkey

Turkey Program Board of Advisors

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Biography

Henri J. Barkey is the Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Chair in International Relations at Lehigh University, and an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously he was the Director of the Middle East Center at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (2015-2017). Barkey served as chair of the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University for 13 years. He served on the State Department Policy Planning Staff (1998-2000) working on the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and intelligence-related issues. He was a non-resident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2008-2011. Currently he also serves as the chair of the Academic Committee on the Board of Trustees of the American University in Iraq, Sulaimani. He has written extensively on Turkey, the Kurds and other Middle East issues.

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