Doga Unlu

Doga joins Stanford’s Master's in International Policy after three years at The Cohen Group, a strategic advisory firm operating at the intersection of business and geopolitics. As a senior consultant, she advised Fortune 500 companies across the defense, energy, and telecommunications sectors on international market strategy, business development, project finance, and geopolitical risk. She led key projects supporting American companies' expansion into new European markets by engaging governments and industry partners across the continent. She also built and led The Cohen Group's Critical Minerals Practice, advising clients on supply chain security and industrial policy, and engaged in energy diplomacy across Washington’s diplomatic community to cultivate international cooperation for energy resilience challenges. Through this work, Doga has developed a strong sense of demand signals for new energy technologies and an interest in how governments and businesses can collaborate to address energy security and climate challenges. Her previous experiences have been focused on designing decision-making procedures for conflict resolution. 

Doga graduated from Yale University with a double major in Global Affairs and Cognitive Science. She completed a capstone project in Finland and Latvia examining Russian disinformation and wrote an empirical thesis proposing a new pscyhological framework for understanding failures to compromise in conflict. Following graduation, Doga was jointly awarded the Peace and Dialogue Leadership Fellowship by Yale University and the U.S. Military Academy, through which she conducted field research in Israel and Palestine on the root causes of the conflict. At Stanford, she looks forward to returning to energy as a baseline for development and security. She is deepening her technical expertise in energy technologies by spending lots of time in the engineering quad and is combining those technologies with smart policy by specializing in Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment.