Deputy Director of Central Asian Institute for Strategic Studies (CISS). Until recently, he was senior researcher of Eurasian Research Institute at Ahmad Yasawi MKTU (Almaty, Kazakstan). He is a graduate of the department of international law of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He also has earned a master’s degree in policy and security from the OSCE Academy in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) and international regional studies at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). In 2015, he earned a PhD from Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Canada). He has been an intern at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (Oslo, Norway) and the Parliament of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. His research papers are published in English and Russian both in Central Asian and in foreign publishing houses. Areas of expertise: energy security, power system control instruments, regional water-power relations, domestic and foreign policy of Central Asian states.

expert in international relations (foreign policy and water resources), Ph.D. fellow at the Free University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany). Deputy Director for international studies at Prudent Solutions think-tank.

a chairman of the Board of the Centre for Political and Legal Studies (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). Candidate of legal sciences. He has graduated from the Kyrgyz National University, majoring in jurisprudence. He has a master of laws degree (LLM) from the Washington College of Law of the American University in Washington, D.C., USA.

doctor of economic sciences of France. Specialises in employment, migration issues, as well as the issues of development of the agricultural sector, cooperatives. Author of a series of research publications published in France, Russia, Japan, etc. She has experience in executive and research work in government agencies and international organisations. President of the Union of Cooperatives of the Kyrgyz Republic, founder of the Professor Rakhat Achylova scientific award.

executive director of the Association of Foreign Investors, strategic adviser of Global Technology Solutions, member of the Public Council at the Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic, economist, political analyst. He has solid experience in developing investment projects. Experience in civil service – 6 years. Experience in private sector analysis – 14 years.

candidate of historical sciences, graduate of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation), expert in international relations, Orientalist (Japanese studies), director of Prudent Solutions think-tank.

head of International and Comparative Policy of AUCA. Research interests include development of public policy in transit countries, civil society in post-Soviet space, identity politics, and political institutions.

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.