Meryem Hakim (Assoc. Prof. Dr.) received a Ph.D. from Bilkent University- Department of International Relations, a master’s degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor’s degree from Hacettepe University. She worked at the BBC Monitoring Service (1983-84) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Analysis Department and Kazakh Service (1984-87). Since after 1991 in Turkey; she has taught courses at Bilkent University (1991-99), Çankaya University (1999-2009), departed İzmir University (2009-2012) and Konya Necmettin Erbakan University (2012-2017). She started to work at Social Sciences University of Ankara in July 2018.