Cenay Babaoğlu graduated from Hacettepe University, department of Political Science and Public Administration. He completed his graduate studies at the same university, at the Institute of Social Sciences, Program of Political Science and Public Administration and worked as research assistant at the same department between 2009-2015. During this period, he had academic visits to Bremen University/Germany for one year, to Berlin/Germany for four months and to Skopje/ Macedonia for six months. After receiving his PhD in 2015, he began his career at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. In 2017, he has been appointed as assistant professor at the Department of Public Administration at Ömer Halisdemir University. He is working as associate professor at Selcuk University, since 2019. The author has many books, book chapters and articles on public policy practices and civic engagement, social policies, public administration and technology. He is the Editor of Journal of Public Administration and Policy and assistant editor of the Journal of Public Administration and Technology.