Emel Parlar Dal is a full Professor at Marmara University’s Department of International Relations (Turkey). She has more than twenty articles published in SSCI peer-reviewed journals, four edited books in Palgrave and she co-edited three special issues in Third World Quarterly, Contemporary Politics and International Politics. Her research interests focus among others on global governance, informality, middle powers, Climate policy, Multilateralism, International Development, Turkey-EU and Turkey-Africa relations. She is the director of the Jean Monnet Chair on the EU and Rising Powers in the Evolving Multilateralism for 2020-2023 and Jean Monnet Center of Excellence on the EU’s sustainability in Global Governance for 2022-2025.