The Istanbul Center is governed by a board of directors of Columbia University senior administrators, and receives guidance and direction from the Office of Global Centers and Global Development in New York and a Faculty Advisory Committee. The Committee provides academic and intellectual input, leadership, and advice regarding the Center’s activities and plans, supports its engagement with faculty, as well as helps identify, expand and advance scholarly exchange, and create innovative and sustainable programming at and through the global center.
The Faculty Advisory Committee is chaired by a faculty member who serves a renewable three-year term and is viewed as a thought-leader by other members of the faculty. Committee members represent a wide spectrum of faculty interests and disciplinary areas, and are selected because of their commitment to globalization and their familiarity with, and interest in, the region’s nations, cultures, and issues.

Zainab Bahrani
Research Interest

Jason Bordoff
Research Interest

Carol Gluck
Research Interest

Ayten Gündoğdu
Research Interest

Sarah H. Cleveland

Valentina Izmirlieva
Research Interest

Rashid Khalidi
Research Interest

Holger A. Klein
Research Interest

Vishakha N. Desai

Tunc Sen
Research Interest
