Born in 1981 in Istanbul. After graduating from Indiana University in political science and economics, he had his graduate education in Harvard University Kennedy School of Politics on public administration. He's currently engaged in his PhD. studies in Johns Hopkins University, where he addresses the economic growth models of Italy and Turkey. Erdoğan has worked as an assistant in Johns Hopkins University's Woodrow Wilson Center, and a specialist in the World Bank and he is a member of the boards of trustees of Ibn Khaldun University, İlim Yayma Vakfı (Science Dissemination Foundation), Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin İslam Bilim Tarihi Araştırmaları Vakfı (Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Islamic Science History Studies Foundation), and Okmeydanı Spor Eğitim Vakfı (Okmeydanı Sports Education Foundation).