M. Erkut Ayvaz graduated in Political Science and Public Law from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. He spent the 2012–2013 academic year at Duke University in North Carolina, USA, as a DAAD scholar. In 2014, he completed his master’s degree and is currently pursuing his doctoral studies at Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany. Mr. Ayvaz serves as the Research Director at the SETA Berlin office.