Ebru obtained her BSc in Political Science from Istanbul Bilgi University and her MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics. Until September 2008, she worked first on an EC-funded project on Security Sector Reform and civilianisation in Turkey, and later as an Assistant Program Officer for the Religion, State, and Society project of the Democratization Program at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV). Before TESEV, she worked as an International Relations analyst at the ARI Foundation, a political NGO in Turkey. She also held project assistant positions in several British and American NGOs. She is currently involved in a charity in London working to promote inter-faith and inter-community dialogue in the UK.