Hakan Altinay is nonresident senior fellow, global economy and development, at the Brookings Institution; chairman of the Open Society Foundation-Turkey; and lecturer at Sabanci University in Istanbul. He specializes in questions of constituency building and normative frameworks for enhanced global cooperation and governance.
In 2009, Altinay was a world fellow at Yale University. From 2001 to 2009, he was executive director of the Open Society Institute/Foundation in Istanbul. He has also served as Caspian and Black Sea coordinator at International Research and Exchanges Board in Istanbul, regional director for Asia and the Near East at Pathfinder International in Istanbul, and as program officer at Spunk Fund in New York.
Altinay has been published in numerous publications, including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and Financial Times.