Alp Sevimlisoy

Alp Sevimlisoy is a 2021 Millennium fellow, 2026 Millennium Leadership Intensive participant, and the chief executive officer of Alp Sevimlisoy Yatırım A.Ş. (Alp Sevimlisoy Investment) in Istanbul. His corporate experience spans across Turkey, the United Kingdom, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Africa. He is also an internationally published geopolitical strategist and national-security expert on Turkey and NATO, with a particular expertise on the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa, notably on unified regional defense policy.

Sevimlisoy has been published as an op-ed author in The Hill, The National Interest, the Daily Express, RealClearDefense, South China Morning Post, Israel Hayom, and other outlets. He has been featured in Newsweek with regard to strategic hypersonic missile deployment within the NATO alliance, written for the Daily Express and The National Interest with regard to military policy deployment in the Black Sea, and been showcased by FOX, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Express with regard to integrated NATO command structures in the Mediterranean. He has been interviewed by FOX, Newsweek, USA Today, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, The Sun, Politico, the Washington Examiner, The Mirror, Voice of America, and the National Journal.

Sevimlisoy and his companies are members of DEİK (Foreign Economic Relations Board) as well as TAİK (Turkish-US Business Council). He has advised regional governments, members of the armed forces, and policymakers on nationalism as a doctrine, as well as on defense policy and national-security matters. Sevimlisoy has advocated for the ideals of Atlanticism with a focus on Mediterranean Unionism. Sevimlisoy has also formerly been an advisory board member at Bayes Business School in London and completed a term on the Istanbul board of the Nationalist Movement Party in 2026.