Elif Çomoğlu Ülgen

Elif Çomoğlu Ülgen (born 1971 in Germany) is a Turkish diplomat who as of 2023 was the General Director of Eastern and Southern Africa in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously, Ülgen served as the ambassador of Turkey to the EU, the UN Office in Geneva, South Africa, as political consultant to NATO in Afghanistan and Libya, and as the first female Turkish Consul General to Dubai.

Education

She was educated at TED Ankara College and Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations.

Career

She joined the Turkish Foreign Ministry in 1993 and served in Pakistan. In 1995, She took office in Turkey's UN Permanent Mission in Geneva. She was a political consultant at one of the NATO headquarters in Turkey and Turkey's Permanent Representative to the EU in Brussels. She became the officer in charge of military operations in Afghanistan and Libya at the NATO Permanent Mission and one of the planners of the NATO operation in Libya.

She was appointed as the Consul General to Dubai in January 2012 and served until 2014. She was the Deputy Director General of Research at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in between 2014 and 2017. She is the General Director of Eastern and Southern Africa in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Family

She is married to Sinan Ülgen and they have three children.