Iain MacGillivray is a 2021–22 Yale Fox International Fellow at Yale University and a Turkey/Middle East researcher at the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), University of Melbourne, where his research focuses on Turkish foreign policy in the post-Arab Spring period. Iain has published academic papers and opinion pieces in leading publications and regularly provides foreign affairs commentary on Turkey and Middle Eastern politics for ABC24, BBC and other local and international media.