Kadir Temiz holds a PhD from Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History. He has studied at Peking University Institute of International Studies and Foreign Language School and at Shanghai International Studies University. Temiz worked as assistant professor at İstanbul Şehir University’s Department of Political Science and International Relations. He teaches Politics of East Asia, China in World Politics, Chinese Foreign Policy and Current Issues in Chinese Foreign Policy courses at İstanbul Medeniyet University and published a book, “Chinese Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East” through Routledge in 2022. He is currently a Fulbright visiting scholar at George Washington University at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.