Director, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government
Birol Yesilada is the coordinator of PSU's designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security. He holds the endowed chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies and is an expert in political and economic development and foreign policy and security analysis with a focus on the European Union, Turkey, Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean. He also has an interest in the assessment of how societal attitudes, beliefs, and values change with political consequences.