Ekin Keleş, graduated from the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in 2021, as the first-ranking student in the Political Science department. During her undergraduate studies, she commenced internships at the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo, the European Union Department of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges, along with the Economic Development Foundation in Brussels, with the financial support of the Erasmus+ Internee program. She also embarked upon on-obliged internships at both the Center for Iranian Studies and the Foreign Policy Institute. She proceeds to write articles in certain newspapers and journals while providing also English to Turkish and French to Turkish interpretation.

Ekin Keleş joined TEPAV as a Research Associate in August 2022.