Altuğ Günal is an academic visitor at the University of Oxford and a lecturer at the International Relations Department of Ege University in İzmir, Turkey. Günal specializes in Balkan and Cypriot issues, humanitarian intervention and the European Union. He is the vice chairman of the Ege Strategic Research Center, editor of the Ege Strategic Research Journal and trains high-level commanders of the Turkish Air Force Command on humanitarian interventions. He holds a PhD in European Studies.