Ezgi Canpolat is a visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She is a globally recognized anthropologist and innovation leader architecting climate solutions and AI for social good at scale. Ezgi has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, policy and research papers that influence both academic discourse and multilateral practice. She is the author of a forthcoming book, tentatively titled Governing Diversity: Syrian Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Belonging in the New Turkey. She holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
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War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story
The war in the Middle East has exposed the costs of fossil fuel dependence, but the path to renewable energy looks very different across regions.
June 8, 2026
