Digdem Soyaltin-Colella is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and a member of the global strategy reference group of Transparency International Berlin. Before joining the University of Aberdeen, she was associate professor in Political Science at Altınbaş University in Istanbul, the academic director of the Jean Monnet Module titled “EU Good Governance Promotion Inside and Beyond Its Borders (EUGOGOV)” (2018-2021), and a board member at Transparency International Turkey. She received her Ph.D. degree in Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and worked as post-doctoral fellow at Stockholm University Institute of Turkish Studies (SUITS). Her main fields of interest are corruption, mechanisms of state capture, autocratic bureaucracies & governance, and Southeast European and Turkish politics. Her publications have appeared in international journals including Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, South European and Black Sea Studies, International Political Science Review, European Politics and Society, Turkish Studies, International Spectator, and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. She is the author of "EU Good Governance Promotion in the Age of Democratic Decline" (ed, Palgrave, 2022) and "Europeanisation, Corruption and Good Governance in the Public Sector: The case of Turkey" (Routledge, 2017).