Kenan Aslanli is a PhD Candidate at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University. He has successfully passed short-term intensive courses on energy economics and emerging markets at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) and Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics (Nanchang, China). He previously worked as a guest lecturer on Black Sea Economies at Fachhochschule des BFI Wien (University of Applied Sciences) and The Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.