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sinologist, Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies in Central Asia “Synopsis”. He has earned a degree in Oriental Studies at the Kazakstan National Teachers’ University. For six years he was a leading researcher at the Kazakstan Institute for Strategic Studies. He has participated in several international internships in the think-tanks of China, including the Chinese Academy of Contemporary International Relations, the Shanghai Academy of International Studies, Centre for Russian Studies of the Shanghai University of World Languages ​​and others. He is an honorary professor at Xinjiang University. Author of over 50 publications in various periodicals of Central Asia, Russia and China. Area of expertise: sinology (issues of socio-economic and political development of China and its regions, security issues, PRC's foreign policy), China’s relations with Central Asian countries, geopolitics, regional security issues.

senior research fellow of the Eurasian Research Institute, leader of the group for political issues, international relations and security studies. During her career, she has prepared over 35 research articles in Kazakstan (Analytic, Ideas, Kazakstan-Spectrum, Central Asia’s Affairs, Asia-Europe) and foreign journals (Problems of the post-Soviet space, Big Game: Politics, Business and Security in Central Asia, Peace and Politics, Bulletin of the Caspian Sea, Russia and the New Eurasian States), and also co-authored 14 collective monographs.

since 2014 he has been an employee of the Foreign Policy and International Security Department of the Kazakstan Institute for Strategic Studies at the President of the Republic of Kazakstan. He has graduated from master’s programme in international relations at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). He is a graduate of the programme of the J. Marshall European Centre for Security Studies (Germany), the Gorchakov Foundation of Public Diplomacy (Russia), and a member of the Asia-Pacific Forum of Young Leaders Program of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (USA). Research directions - regional security in Central Asia and Afghanistan, foreign policy of Turkey, USA, Japan in Central Asian region.

a candidate of economic sciences, leading research fellow, head of human migration sector of the department of demography at the Institute of Economics and Demography of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan. Author and leader of task forces developing draft laws of Tajikistan.