Nuh Yılmaz was the founding director of the SETA Foundation at Washington DC between 2008 and 2011. He is an academic, foreign policy analyst and journalist with broad work experience as executive director, bureau chief, columnist, and editor. Before SETA-DC he served as the Washington bureau chief of Turkish media outlets such as STAR, CNN Türk, Haber24. He has numerous publications and appearances in major media outlets including BBC, Washington Times, Al-Jazeera English, Al-Jazeera Arabic, Open Democracy, The National and Foreign Policy. Mr. Yilmaz also worked for Al Jazeera Türk as Head of Quality Assurance. He is currently Foreign News Coordinator at Star Newspaper, teaching at Marmara University and Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). He is a member of the IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies).