Ziya Öniş

Ziya Öniş is Professor of International Political Economy at Koç University in Istanbul. Prior to joining Koç University, he was Professor of Economics at Boğaziçi University. He is the former Director of both the Center for Research on Globalization, Peace and Democratic Governance (GLODEM) and the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University. His recent research focuses on a variety of themes in global political economy, rising powers including the dynamics of the emerging post-liberal international (dis)order, varieties of populism in a comparative and global context, and domestic politics-foreign policy linkages in rising powers. His articles have been published in Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Global Governance, Journal of Democracy, Comparative Politics, Government and Opposition, Development and Change, Mediterranean Politics, Third World Quarterly, Democratization, Political Science Quarterly, International Affairs inter alia.  He is the co-recipient, with Mustafa Kutlay, of the Elizabeth Meehan Prize for the best article published in Government and Opposition in 2019. In March 2023, he received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in the context of 18^th Kadir Has Awards.  More recently, he is the recipient of the Koç University Outstanding Teaching Award for 2023-2024, the International Relations Council of Türkiye Senior Scholar Award for 2024, andnd the Academic Service Award of the Turkish Economics Association for 2025. He was elected as a Member of the Academia Europea in 2026. He has been a Fellow of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) since 2012.