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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Gulf oil producers race to escape Hormuz dependence
Middle East oil producers face a strategic reckoning in the aftermath of the Gulf conflict, which exposed the catastrophic dangers of relying on a single chokepoint for their vital energy exports and has left Gulf governments with a clear and urgent imperative to diversify their export routes at almost any cost.
The conflict shattered the long-held assumption that an Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz was a Doomsday scenario that would never materialize, demonstrating instead that Tehran could impose a near-airtight blockade using cheap drones, small vessels, and mines while continuing its own exports, stranding a fifth of the world’s oil and LNG supplies and inflicting unprecedented turmoil on the region’s energy industry.
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China-Africa trade gives the yuan a wider foothold
Surging Chinese trade with Africa and the lifting of tariffs for most countries on the continent are set to boost the use of the yuan, aiding Beijing’s broader bid to build alternatives to Western finance and reduce the dominance of the US dollar in international trade and settlement.
China-Africa trade rose by nearly eighteen percent last year, and the tariff cuts on imports from fifty-three African countries in May are expected to increase the flows and the yuan-denominated settlements that accompany them, advancing the gradual internationalization of the Chinese currency that Beijing has pursued as part of its effort to reshape the global financial architecture.
June 19, 2026 -
Energy Fuels loan targets America’s rare earth bottleneck
The US government has signed a 725-million-dollar conditional loan commitment with Energy Fuels to boost domestic processing of rare earth elements, the latest in a series of substantial federal investments aimed at reducing American reliance on Chinese rare earth supply.
The commitment, which sent Energy Fuels shares surging more than nine percent, will enable the uranium-focused company to expand into rare earth separation and metallization, the processing steps crucial for producing the permanent magnets essential to electric vehicles, wind turbines, defense systems, and a wide range of industrial and medical applications.
June 19, 2026