Elif Dördüncü AydemirPresident
Areas of expertise
- Political Strategy
- Political Risk Assessment
- Campaign Management
- Team and Network Management in Politics
Education
- PhD, Political Science, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Master, Political Sociology, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Master, International Relations-Strategy, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
- BA, Political Science and Public Administration,Marmara University
Elif Dördüncü Aydemir is an advisory board member of The George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. While working and setting winning strategies for over 180 campaigns around the world, she gives importance to academic presence in political science. She loves to work with students to convey her experience and knowledge to younger generations. She continues to work as a lecturer and gives seminars in prestigious universities around the world.
After graduating from Marmara University, Political Science and Public Administration Department, she continued her studies in Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
Elif Dördüncü Aydemir is an active member of IAPC (International Association of Political Consultants), EAPC (European Association of Political Consultants) and ISPP (International Society of Political Psychology).
She has completed her Master Degrees in International Relations-Strategy and also in Political Sociology from Sorbonne Paris I University where she continued to her PhD studies examining the political discourse of Turkish and Greek nationalisms. She is fluent and provides consultancy in English, French, Spanish and Turkish.
Latest Analyses & Insights on Elif's expertise
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Beijing’s overcapacity defense hardens into party doctrine
There is a difference between defending a policy and theorising it. Governments defend policies constantly, in press conferences and communiqués, with arguments calibrated to the audience of the moment. Theorising a policy is a heavier act: it means placing the practice inside a framework of historical necessity, publishing it in the journal where the Party works out what it believes, and thereby making retreat expensive.
That is what Beijing has done over the past fortnight, and it tells you more about the coming negotiations with Brussels and Washington than any tariff schedule. The two documents work in tandem. The Commerce Ministry’s position paper on so-called industrial overcapacity accused the West of protectionism and dismissed the entire concept as rooted in logical flaws and ulterior motives.
August 3, 2026 -
China’s overcapacity denial pushes Europe toward protectionism
Negotiations usually involve at least the pretence of movement. What Beijing published last week was the opposite: a formal statement that the problem Europe wants to discuss does not exist. With an October deadline approaching to address a goods trade deficit that has reached roughly 360 billion euros, or more than a billion dollars a day, the Chinese Commerce Ministry chose to release a ten-thousand-character defence of its industrial policy rejecting the overcapacity charge outright.
Whatever the merits of the individual arguments, the timing forecloses the diplomatic path. Brussels now has to decide what to do rather than what to ask for. The European grievance rests on two numbers, and only one of them is about money. The deficit itself is politically potent, but the figure driving urgency in Brussels is the estimate of 500 European manufacturing jobs lost daily to Chinese competition, cited by the European Trade Union Confederation in its call for action rather than words.
August 3, 2026 -
China’s conflicting PMIs reveal a deepening two-speed economy
On Friday the National Bureau of Statistics reported that Chinese manufacturing had contracted, with the official PMI falling to 49.2. On Monday the private RatingDog survey reported that Chinese manufacturing had expanded for an eighth consecutive month, with the headline at 50.9. Both numbers are correct. They describe different companies.
Understanding why that gap has opened is more useful than either figure on its own, because the divergence is the clearest available map of which parts of the Chinese economy are working and which are not.
August 3, 2026