Experts

head of Polis Asia think-tank. Scope of activity: socio-political studies, conflicts.  She has worked as national expert in the consulting group of ex-president Roza Otunbaeva. Founder of Academy of Civil Education in Kyrgyzstan.

political analyst, PhD (UK). Expert in political regimes, elites and local movements. Her recent publications concern political parties, elections, nationalistic groups and patronage networks. She has solid experience of holding qualitative field studies in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakstan.

in 2010, she earned the master’s degree in political science at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. She graduated from the department of psychology of the American University in Central Asia, bachelor’s degree in organisational industrial psychology in 2007. A coordinator of researches and trainings held by the OSCE Academy since 2011. Area of expertise: regional security and cooperation in Central Asia and Afghanistan, resources, sustainable development, foreign and domestic policy of Turkmenistan.

has been involved in the issues of improvement of the efficiency of public administration and analysis of development and international relations policies in Central Asian states for more than 20 years. He has held offices at civil service in the parliament of Kyrgyzstan (1997-2002) and the Presidential Administration of the Kyrgyz Republic (2010), has experience as an adviser of international projects (UNDP, ABD, WB, EU, OSCE, DFID, USAID). He studied the public administration and state policy analysis methods in Turkey (1997-1998), UK (2001) and USA (2007-2008).

graduated from the department of history and international relations of the Russian-Tajik (Slavic) University. Chairman of the Youth Branch of Central Asian Expert Club “European Development” (since 2014). Head of representative office of the Eurasian Movement of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Tajikistan. Expert of the Centre for Eurasian Studies (since 2016). An intern of the Department of Information, Print, Analysis and Foreign Political Planning of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Tajikistan (August 2015-August 2016). From December 2014 until now, an editor of the diplomatic newsletter MISSION.

chairman of the Business Development Centre of Republic of Tajikistan, national coordinator of Publish What You Pay, a member of the Board of the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations of the Republic of Tajikistan. A member of the Armenian and Georgian communities of the Republic of Tajikistan.

political analyst. He has graduated from the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, majoring in international relations. Currently, he is a PhD student of the department of political analysis and forecasting of the RUDN University. Area of expertise: political regimes in Central Asia.

Ph.D., political analyst, Orientalist and freelance researcher from Tajikistan. He has earned doctoral degree in Islamic studies at the University of Basel (Switzerland). A graduate of the department of Oriental studies of TGNU, Arabic department. He is a member of inter-Tajik dialogue – an international peace-making initiative during the civil war in Tajikistan, a member of the research group of EUCAM (EU-Central Asia monitoring project). He has worked with various international organisations and agencies such as Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, UNCHR, UNDP and ADB. He is the author of over 40 research articles and publications.

sociologist, PhD, assistant professor, head of chair of history and theory of journalism and electronic media of the Russian-Tajik (Slavic) University. Education: Tajik State University, department of history; Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, postgraduate studies; alumna of Fulbright Programme (2002, University of Montana, USA). She is the author of over 100 publications on sociology, gender studies, journalism.

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, expert in Afghanistan, historian, and political analyst. He graduated from the Lenin Tajik State University (TNU) in 1979, department of history. He has over 200 monographic studies and articles on the problems of Afghanistan, regional security, Tajik-Afghan relations, as well as on public administration issues.