Roman Darius is a Juris Doctor candidate based in Melbourne with a background in finance and economics and a Master of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies from the Australian National University, where he was awarded the Khalifa Bakhit Al-Falsi prize for his work and research project titled “Socio-Economic Coalitions and Democratisation: A Causal Analysis of Turkey’s Restricted Democracy.” A fluent speaker of Russian and Persian with advanced level Spanish, he has spent time in both the United States and Europe where he engaged in research and advisory work for policy forums and political parties.