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Political observer. Chief Editor of the Turan Times information and analytical agency, author of the Kazakh telegram channel ABISHEV ANALYTICS. He graduated from the Pavlodar State Pedagogical Institute, specializing in teacher of mathematics (2005) and master of mathematics (2007), magistracy at Queen Mary University of London with a degree in Economics (2016). Since 2009 - in the journalistic profession, the direction is politics and economics, analysis. He worked as the deputy Chief Editor of the business publication KURSIV, the observer of the final television program “In Other Words”, the Chief Editor of the OilNews.kz portal, the analyst of the Central Communications Service under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the adviser to the vice minister for investment and development.

Specialist in energy policy, green economy and alternative energy. Government and Public Relations Advisor, Royal Dutch Shell plc. in Kazakhstan. Master of Political Science at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek (2017). The research area is energy policy (oil and gas), green economy, alternative energy. Specialist in International Relations (Eurasian National University named after Gumilyov - 2001), Bachelor of Economics (University named after Baikonurov - 2010). He speaks five languages ​​- Kazakh, Russian, English, Turkish and French. Currently works as a Government and Public Relations Advisor to Royal Dutch Shell plc. in Kazakhstan.

Researcher of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a participant in the School of Analytics CABAR.asia. Researcher at the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Slyamzhar's area of interest includes the activities of state and civil institutions in Kazakhstan, the practice of jury trials in the Republic, issues of interaction between the state and the population, as well as other aspects of socio-political processes in the internal field of Kazakhstan.

Senior Researcher, Department of Social and Economic Research, Master in Economics. Date of birth – February 23, 1992 in Karaganda. In 2013, she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Economics from Kokshetau State University named after Sh. Ualikhanova with a degree in Economics. Master in National Economics, the branch of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov in Kazakhstan in 2015. He is interested in issues of economic growth and development, investment in fixed assets, problems of financial support of the national economy.

Молодой аналитик. Окончил бакалавриат Евразийского Национального Университета(ЕНУ) по специальности «Международные отношения»(2018). В настоящий момент обучается по программе магистратуры в ЕНУ. Участник школы аналитики Cabar.Asia (2019). Является членом многих Центрально-Азиатских молодежных нетворкинг-сообществ, таких как Central Asian Youth Network, Network by Consensus, Central Asian Youth Festival Alumni Network. Сфера интересов включает в себя интеграцию в Центральной Азии, молодежную политику Казахстана.

a graduate of the bachelor’s programme of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Tashkent) and master’s programme of the National Research University of Higher School of Economics, Moscow. A columnist of several periodicals in Russia and Kazakstan. Areas of expertise: issues of social and economic reforms in post-Soviet countries, issues of authoritarianism in CIS, Russian-American relations after the cold war, American politics in Central Asia.

an independent analyst specialising in post-Soviet processes in Central Asia and other former USSR countries. She is also interested in the international security issues, including the threat of religious terrorism. The alumna of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the John Hopkins University and master of international relations of the University of Westminster in London. Zainab has worked as Assistant Liaison Officer for countering drugs and organised crime at the Embassy of Italy in Uzbekistan. She has also worked with the Open Central Asia magazine staff in London.

a political analyst, Director of non-state academic institution “Bilim qarvoni” (“Caravan of knowledge”), Candidate of Political Sciences, specialises in modern geopolitics, theory of international security, regional integration in Central Asia. He has been an intern in the NATO Defence College (Rome, 1997), Harvard University (USA, 1999), instructor at Georgia State University (USA, 2004). From 1998 to 2002, he worked in the Presidential Administration of Uzbekistan. Author of 80+ research publications in foreign and local academic periodicals, joint collections of articles and monographs. Author of monograph “Higher strategy of Uzbekistan amid geopolitical and ideological transformation of Central Asia”; co-author of collective monograph “Central Asia: geoeconomy, geopolitics, security.”

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.