Ece Özbey is Co-Managing Editor of the Review of Democracy, the online journal of the CEU Democracy Institute (DI), where she previously served as Regional Editor during her Global Forum for Democracy and Development Fellowship at the DI. She is a doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Cologne, pursuing a PhD in Comparative Politics. Her research explores populism, Euroskepticism, political competition, and radicalization in European democracies. An affiliate of the METU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, she has also conducted research and published on European integration and EU-Turkey relations.
Ece holds an MSc in European Studies and a BSc in International Relations. She has held visiting research positions at leading institutions in the US, UK, and Chile, and is actively engaged in various international research communities. She is a founding member of the OPUS Young Researchers Initiative on Populism and an active member of a variety of research networks, including Team Populism and the FEPS Young Academics Network.