Cagri Erdem is a teacher,author, and lecturer in the fields of international relations/security andpolitical geography. He received his Licencedegree in Administration Economique et Sociale (AES) from Universite deMontpellier-Ⅲ, France. Erdem continued his education in California, obtaining his BA and MA in International Relations at San Francisco State University. Next, he received his Ph.D. in political science from Syracuse University of New York.

In his university career, he has been a professor/visiting lecturer of international relations at various universities across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Northeast Asia with a lifelong commitment to education improvement. In addition, he participated in various specific certificate programs, such as Russian culture and language training at Moscow Lomonosov State University (2002) and Afghan culture and language at the University of Nebraska-Omaha (2008).

Before moving to the Republic of Korea in 2015, Erdem worked at British Aerospace Engineering (BAE) Systems as asocial scientist focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan (2008-09) and in Istanbul, Turkey as an assistant professor (2010-15). Currently, he is teaching courses on
international security and geopolitics at Keimyung University. He lives in Daegu, South Korea.