Hüseyin Silman

Hüseyin Silman is the president of the Turkish-Cypriot think-tank Global Policies Centre. He also serves as project manager at Cyprus Peace and Dialogue Centre, where he implements an EU-funded civil society project titled ‘Addressing discriminatory human rights violations in Cyprus which arise as a result of the conflict as a vehicle for reconciliation.’ He holds a BA in political science and public administration from Bilkent University in Ankara and an MSc in European politics from Birkbeck, University of London. Between 2007-2019 he oversaw the horizontal coordination of the EU-funded harmonisation of the Turkish-Cypriot community with the European Union and played an active role in the UN-led negotiation process for the comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem.