Experts

Financial analyst, General Director of the consulting company “Almagest”. Kusainov Aidarkhan Maratovich graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University, KIMEP and the Atyrau Institute of Oil and Gas. In 1995-1998 worked at KBS Group, where he started and developed a consulting business line. Participated in the privatization project of Tselinniy Mining and Chemical Combine JSC, AltaiEnergo JSC, and the restructuring of NAC KATEP. Since 2015, he has been the General Director of Almagest LLP.

Director of the Legal Media Center Public Foundation. Journalist, media trainer. For more than ten years he has been studying and developing media legislation, monitoring state financing of the press, issues of access to information, effective communications of NGOs, government agencies and the media. Training topics: Legal safety of a journalist, effective communication with the media, coverage of children's rights in the media, access to information: legislative norms and practical tools, crisis management in social networks

Head of the Center for Applied Political Science and International Studies. Candidate of Philosophy, Senior Researcher Institute of Philosophy, Political Science and Religious Studies of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Honorary Professor of East China Pedagogical University, Shanghai, China.

Vice-president of JSC NCSSTE (National Center for State Scientific and Technical Expertise), a medieval historian, a specialist in the genetic genealogy of Turkic peoples, a political scientist. PhD in Political Science (2009). Author and co-author of more than 300 scientific publications. It is included in the top 3 of Kazakhstani historians by scientometric indicators (Number of articles, Citation Index, Hirsch Index for Web of Science, Scopus, RSCI (RSCI core)).

Leading researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies. R.B. Suleimenova of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ph.D. In 1995 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Tashkent State University. Mirzo Ulugbek. Member of the Russian Philosophical Society. The author of more than 100 scientific papers. One of the co-authors of the International Interdisciplinary Encyclopedic Dictionary "Global Studies". Field of research: socio-political and socio-philosophical aspect of the cultural and civilizational problems of globalization, religious studies, philosophy and sociology of ethno-politics and political processes in Central Asia.

Analyst. Member of the School of Analytics CABAR.asia (Nur-Sultan). Today she works at the Center for Social Interaction and Communications of Samruk-Kazyna JSC in Astana. Has a higher education, or rather a bachelor's degree in economics, master of economics and MBA.

Constitutionalist, candidate of jurisprudence, director of the Public Foundation “Institute for the Development of Constitutionalism and Democracy”. Gabdualiev Mereke Tlekovich was born on May 18, 1981 in the city of Uralsk, West Kazakhstan Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Specialty “Law”, qualification “Lawyer” (Ural Academy of Labor and Social Relations, 1998-2002). Candidate of Law, Higher Attestation Commission of Russia, specialty 12.00.02. "constitutional law; municipal law ”(graduate school of the Saratov State Academy of Law, 2002-2006). Currently - a leading researcher in the department of constitutional and administrative law of the state institution“ Institute of Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan ”.

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language and Literature E. A. Buketova. From 1987-1992 she studied at the Karaganda State University. E. A. Buketova, a philologist. 1992-1993 - Trainee researcher at the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature E. A. Buketova; 1993-1996 - Postgraduate study at the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature E. A. Buketova; 2006-2008 - Faculty of Law (KarSU named after E. A. Buketov). 1996 - Lecturer, Department of Russian and Foreign Literature, KSU; 1997-2002 - Senior teacher of the department of Russian and foreign literature; 2002-2004 - Head of the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature; 2004–2018 - Scientific Secretary of KarSU named after E. A. Buketova, Associate Professor, Department of Russian Language and Literature

General director , Institute for Systems Research "Parasat"; member of the School of Analytics cabar.asia (Astana). In 2013 she graduated from the bachelor's degree program at the Faculty of Economics of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, specialty "Accounting and Audit", in 2015 she graduated from the Master's degree program at the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University, specialty "Economics", direction - "National Economy". In 2015 - 2017 she worked in the Department of Socio-Economic Research of the Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Research under the President of Kazakhstan, from May 2017 she was a leading expert in the Department of Socio-Cultural Development of the Institute for Systemic Research "Parasat".

Independent Researcher (Kazakhstan) Kairat (PhD in Political Economy) is a researcher and expert from Kazakhstan. He teaches the disciplines of Research Methods and Data Analysis to students of PhD programs, and also conducts seminars "From idea to publication" for university professors. His research interests are regional integration, identity politics, and higher education management. He has publications in the Journal of International Relations and Development and in collections from publishers such as Routledge and Palgrave.