PhD in Political Science / International Relations
Current Projects:
Ezgi Yildiz is the Principal Investigator for Testing the Focal Point Theory of International Adjudication: An Empirical Analysis of the ICJ’s Impact on Maritime Delimitation project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is also the Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC funded the Paths of International Law: Stability and Change in the International Legal Order (PATHS) project at the Global Governance Center of the Graduate Institute, Geneva.
Ezgi has recently been appointed to be a member of the Expert Group for the Implementation of the EU’s Anti-Torture Regulation (Regulation 2019/125) for the European Commission’s Foreign Policy Instruments (2021-2023).
Ezgi holds a PhD in International Relations with a Minor in International Law (summa cum laude with distinction) from the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Her research has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Doc CH, Early Postdoc Mobility and Spark grants.
Prior to joining the Global Governance Center team, she was a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University. She also spent some time as a Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM, Institute for Human Sciences) in Vienna. During her doctoral studies, Ezgi was a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Center of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts) of the University of Copenhagen, and at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI) of Sciences-Po Paris.