Ambassador Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kibaroğlu (Ph.D., Bilkent University, Ankara, IR Dept, 1996) assumed the Permanent Representative position at the Turkish Permanent Mission to the UN Office in Vienna in April 2026 where he used to serve as Minister Plenipotentiary since March 2025.

Prior to assuming his diplomatic position, Prof. Kibaroğlu served as the Director of Graduate School at MEF University in Istanbul, where he also used to be the Founding Chair of the Department of Political Science & International Relations (2014-2017), and the Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Administrative & Social Sciences (2017-2024);

Prof. Kibaroğlu taught courses on “Arms Control and Disarmament” and “Turkish Foreign Policy” in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara (1997-2011) where he was the Vice-Chair of the Department. He also served as the Chair of the Department of International Relations at Okan University in Istanbul (2011-2014).

Prof. Kibaroğlu was a Research Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva (1995); International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Fellow at the University of Southampton (1996); Post-doctoral Fellow at the Monterey Institute in California (1996/97); and Sabbatical Fellow at Belfer Center of Harvard University (2004/05).

Prof. Kibaroğlu’s research interests are the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, NATO, European security and defense policies, international terrorism, Middle Eastern politics, foreign policy analysis, and Turkish foreign policy.

Prof. Kibaroğlu is the co-author (with Ayşegül Kibaroğlu) of Global Security Watch – Turkey (2009) by Praegers in the United States, and the co-editor of Defence Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism (2010), Bioterrorism: Threats and Deterrents (2010), Responses to Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism (2011), Defence Against Terrorism (2011), and Analysis and Strategies to Counter the Terrorism Threat (2011) by IOS Press published in the Netherlands.

Prof. Kibaroğlu is also the author and co-author of chapters in books and articles in academic journals, such as Security Dialogue, Nonproliferation Review, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Middle East Quarterly, Middle East Journal, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Middle Eastern Studies, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Turkish Studies, Middle East Policy, and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.

Prof. Kibaroğlu served as Academic Advisor of the NATO Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT) as well as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Defence Against Terrorism Review (DATR) published by COE-DAT (2006-2013).

Prof. Kibaroğlu was awarded The Stanton Foundation Grant for Course Development on International and Nuclear Security in 2015.

Prof. Kibaroğlu served as a Distinguished Member of Sectoral Working Group of the ROKETSAN Missile Industries (2015-2019).

Prof. Kibaroğlu is a Member of the Council of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs since 2007, the world-renowned 1995 Nobel Peace Prize winner think tank.

Prof. Kibaroğlu speaks French and English, and he is married to Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Kibaroğlu (MEF University, Political Science and International Relations) and has one son.