Arda Akgül

Arda Akgül studies Economics and Business Administration at TED University and works as a Research Assistant at the TED University Sustainable Trade Research Center. His academic work focuses on climate economics, trade policy, and the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).

His undergraduate thesis is titled Strategic Behavioral Shifts in Aluminum Companies with High EU Exposure. The thesis examines how aluminum companies with significant European Union exposure adjust strategy, incentives, and behavior under climate-linked trade regulation.

Arda is the founder of Monarch Castle Technologies, a strategic and open-source intelligence research lab. He is also the creator of the Border Neighbor Threat Index, a project designed to structure comparative geopolitical and border-risk analysis.

His technical stack includes Python, R, Stata, SQL, and LLM automation for research workflows, data analysis, and intelligence-oriented documentation.