Professor Ibrahim Kalın served as Assistant Undersecretary of State and Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey. He is the founding director of the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic, and Social Research based in Ankara. He received his PhD from George Washington University. Professor Kalın has taught Islamic philosophy, comparative philosophy, Islam-West relations, and Turkish foreign policy courses. Since 2019, he has been giving lectures in the field of Islamic philosophy at Ibn Haldun University. His book Islam and the West (published in Turkish) has won the 2007 Writers’ Association of Turkey award. His interviews and columns have appeared in the Guardian, Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, al-Sharq al-Awsat, al-Ahram, al-Jazeera Network al-Arabiyya, and Daily Sabah.