Elif Çomoğlu Ülgen

She joined the Turkish Foreign Ministry in 1993 and served in Pakistan. In 1995, She took office in Turkey's UN Permanent Mission in Geneva. She was a political consultant at one of the NATO headquarters in Turkey and Turkey's Permanent Representative to the EU in Brussels. She became the officer in charge of military operations in Afghanistan and Libya at the NATO Permanent Mission and one of the planners of the NATO operation in Libya.^[5][6]

She was appointed as the Consul General to Dubai in January 2012 and served until 2014. She was the Deputy Director General of Research at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in between 2014 and 2017.^[4]

She resumed office as Turkey's ambassador to South Africa on February 2, 2017, and left office for Ayşegül Kandaş on June 23, 2021.^[2][7] She is the General Director of Eastern and Southern Africa in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.^[1] (A role directly under Ambassador Burak Akçapar, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs(Turkey) on the Ministry's organizational chart).^[8]

She is married to Sinan Ülgen and they have three children.^[4]