Zeynep Egeli is a project assistant at the Atlantic Council in Turkey, where she supports the Turkey program in energy security and digital policy.

Before joining the Atlantic Council, Egeli was an associate at Glocal Group, a consultancy company specializing in energy and sustainability, where she consulted to tech companies in navigating the digital policies in Turkey and reported on the sustainability policy developments in the European Union at the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine; she also co-authored a book chapter on that subject. Previously, Egeli worked on intelligence and crisis management in international and civil organizations such as the International Criminal Court and the Cultural Emergency Response and is an associate member of the International Scientific Committee on Risk Preparedness of the International Council on Monuments and Sites.

Egeli has an MSc from Leiden University’s Crisis and Security Management program, where she wrote her thesis on the use of warning intelligence for the protection of cultural property in conflict zones. She co-authored a chapter on the same topic in the upcoming book Surprise, Surprise! Cases in Warning Intelligence, to be published by Edinburgh University Press. Egeli also holds a BA in international studies from Leiden University, where she completed a minor on intelligence studies and the Honours College program on cultural heritage studies. Egeli is an awardee of the Leiden Excellence Scholarship, Holland Scholarship, and Kluitersprijs for excellent students in intelligence studies.