Naif Bezwan, works as a Senior Scientist and Project Leader at the Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna and also serves as an Associate Expert at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights. He has worked, researched and taught at various universities in Germany, Turkey, Austria and the United Kingdom. His research and teaching interests include intercultural studies, Turkish foreign and domestic policy, Kurdish politics and society, comparative migration and diaspora politics, conflict studies and political theory. He regularly contributes to current discourses in the media as an expert on Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy, Kurdish politics, and the self-determination conflict.