Dilrabo Jonbekova
Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University
My primary research interest is in the relationship between education, economy and labour market interplay. Within this area I focus on (a) transition of university graduates to job market and the inequalities involved in the employability of graduates, (b) role of international higher education in development, and (c) university-industry partnerships. Additionally, I examine higher education […]
Grady Vaughan
MA Candidate, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
My research interests primarily revolve around civil society and responses to human rights violations in Central Asia. I am also interested in examining how members of the Tajik, Turkmen, and Uzbek diasporas engage with their homelands in the face of transnational repression.
Martha Merrill
Associate Professor, Kent State University
I research changes in higher education since independence in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
Miras Zhiyenbayev
Fellow, Eurasian program at Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies
Current research project is related to area of democratization processes in Central Asia with particular focus on Kazakhstan, its power transition and the meaning for the region. As part of Eurasian program at CCEIS, HSE University, Zhiyenbayev’s work related to integration studies and Eurasian integration processes with focus on Central Asian states’ engaging policies and […]
Bahar Özdemir
Research Assistant, PhD candidate, Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University
As an art historian my research field is Islamic art and architecture. My specific field of study is Central Asian Islamic period art and architecture, specially Timurid and earlier periods.
Alisher Faizullaev
Independent Researcher
Diplomacy, negotiation.
Duncan Enright
Managing Director, Evidence-based Networks
EBN provides leadership development and evidence-based knowledge resources for organisations and corporations, including working in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Our network of specialists includes professionals in Nur-Sultan, Almaty and Bishkek, as well as our global team headquartered in the UK. Our recent research includes work on leadership in public administration and politics, and digital transformation.
Valijon Turakulov
PhD in International Trade, Inha University
I am a trade economist focusing on the trade and regional policies of Central Eurasian countries.
Olga Shiyan
Executive Director, Public Fund Transparency Kazakhstan, Institute of Ethnology
Corruption, anti corruption, social anthropology, modern traditions and practices, methods of participatory observation.
Sara Hassani
Ph.D. Candidate in Politics & ACLS/Mellon Fellow, New School for Social Research
Gender, resistance, self-destructive violence, feminization of poverty.