Yahya Gülseven works as a senior expert for the Turkish International Cooperation Agency. He has 18 years of experience in design and implementation of development cooperation projects in various countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Balkans. He has also worked as a part-time instructor in different universities. His research interests are international aid architecture,
development cooperation and the South-South Cooperation. His work was published in international peer-reviewed journals such as The Pacific Review, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies and World Review of Political Economy.