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Batuhan Aydag眉l is an educational practitioner, policy analyst, and scholar with twenty-five years of experience across schools, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and governmental agencies in different geographies. Batuhan holds a B.A. in Business from Marmara University in Turkey and an M.A. in International Education Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University in the USA. Since 2019, Batuhan has pursued his doctorate in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA. His research interests involve critical policy analysis of K-12 and higher education policies focusing on the interplay between state and educational institutions. Before his doctorate, Batuhan was the director of the Education Reform Initiative (ERI), a Turkish non-governmental think-and-do-tank in education. Batuhan takes pride in being part of a team that established a reputable and trustworthy education policy institution in a highly politicized and polarized country. After ten years with the ERI, he took over the position of director from the founding director, Prof. 脺st眉n Erg眉der, in July 2013 and served until August 2019. An internationally recognized voice in Turkish education, Batuhan is trusted by national and international media (BBC, FT, NYT, The Economist) for his non-partisan, objective, and evidence-based views. He has a long track record of public speaking on education, including talks invited by high school students, which he considers especially valuable. Academically, Batuhan has frequently participated in the Comparative International Education Society conferences and was invited to the Center of Middle East Studies at Harvard University to deliver the Director鈥檚 Seminar. Batuhan Aydag眉l is a recipient of a 鈥淒istinguished Service Award鈥� from the Liberia Ministry of National Education and was awarded the Patricia Blunt Koldyke Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship in 2012 by the Chicago Council of Global Affairs for his contributions to public education in Turkey. Batuhan serves on the Board of the Mother-Child Education Foundation (A脟EV). Previously, he served on the Board of the Dar眉艧艧afaka Association, ENKA Schools, and Teacher Training Academy Foundation in Turkey, as well as the Network of Education Policy Centers, a regional network headquartered in Croatia. He has been a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts since February 2017.