Sevket Sefa is postgraduate researcher at PPR. He has his M.A. from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin German Turkish Social Sciences programme and studied international relations (B.A.) at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkiye. He worked at the EU Coordination Department of Turkiye's Ministry of Labour and Social Security as assistant EU expert, and later Antalya Bilim University as research assistant.

His main research interests are 

• Discourses about European Foreign and Security Policy
• Euro-Mediterranean Relations
• Securitization Theory