Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erman Akıllı is currently serving as a faculty member in the Department of International Relations at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University. His areas of expertise include artificial intelligence in foreign policy, digital diplomacy, the Central Asia region, the Organization of Turkish States, soft power, and its sub-branches. Throughout his academic career, he has published articles in peer-reviewed journals indexed in SSCI and WOS; and has contributed as an author and editor to books published by prestigious publishing houses such as Routledge, Palgrave MacMillan, and Springer Nature. Additionally, he served as the chief editor at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek between 2023-2024 and continues his work as an assistant editor for the Insight Turkey journal published by SETA.