Nejdet ERTUĞ is a senior associate of East and West Institute .He was born in 1962. He graduated from Eskisehir Kanatlı High School in 1979. Moreover, he has graduated from Faculty of Theologh and Islamic Philosophy in 1985. He worked as a high school teacher in Trabzon. He passed to Science -Literature Faculty History Department of Sakarya University from Presidency State Archive in 1993. He worked as the visitor lecturer in Harvard Law School and Center for Middle Eastern Studies during the period of 2000/2001 . In 2002 he started working in the Philosophy Deparment.