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Visiting professors from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Hyesong Ha
Assistant Professor

Position: Assistant Professor
Education Background: Ph.D. in Public Affairs, Indiana University (USA)
Research Areas: Quantitative analysis, organizational theory & behavior, organizational performance, public sector innovation, human resource management, employee empowerment & performance management, corruption & ethical behavior

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Weng Tat Hui
Dean
Weng Tat Hui specialises in the impact of globalisation on labour markets, economic issues of migration, education, ageing and retirement, and labour market policies in Singapore. He has also taught in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore before joining the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in 2004.

Position: Dean
Education Background: Ph.D. in Economics, Australian National University (Australia)
Research Areas: Globalisation on labour markets impact, economic issues of migration, education, ageing and retirement

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Riccardo Pelizzo
Professor and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs
Dr Riccardo Pelizzo is a Professor & Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University. Dr Pelizzo is an internationally recognized political development specialist.
Dr Pelizzo’s research focuses on issues of political development, institutional reform and institutional performance in developing countries. After designing measures and benchmarks for assessing parliaments’ capacity and performance, he is currently devising several diagnostic tools to measure political stability and other dimensions of good governance.

Position: Professor & Vice Dean for Academic Affairs
Education Background: Ph.D. in Political Science, Johns Hopkins University (USA)
Research Areas: Political development, political parties, good governance, parliamentary strengthening, and anti-corruption

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Peter Howie
Associate Professor
Peter Howie joined the Graduate School of Public Policy as an Associate Professor of Public Policy in 2012. Dr. Howie received his doctorate in Mineral Economics from the Colorado School of Mines. His fields of research include: climate and energy policy and economics; development issues in oil-dependent developing and transition economies; and public policy evaluation.

Position: Associate Professor
Education Background: Ph.D. in Mineral Economics, Colorado School of Mines (USA)
Research Areas: Climate and energy policy and economics; development issues in oil-dependent developing and transition economies; and public policy evaluation

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Omer F. Baris
Associate Professor
Omer F. Baris has joined the Graduate School of Public Policy as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 2013. Dr. Baris received his doctorate in economics from Georgia State University in August 2012. His fields of research include microeconomic theory, bargaining and game theory with a special focus on asymmetric information in public economics.

Position: Associate Professor
Education Background: Ph.D. in Economics, Georgia State University (USA)
Research Areas: Micro economic theory, game theory and bargaining, public economics, behavioral economics, behavioral public policy, social choice and welfare economics, and public choice

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Aziz Burkhanov
Associate Professor
Aziz Burkhanov has joined the Graduate School of Public Policy as an Assistant Professor in 2014. Dr. Burkhanov received his doctoral degree from Indiana University in October 2013. His research interests include nationalism and identity theories, national identity politics, policies and practices with a special focus on identity issues and their perceptions in the public narratives in former Soviet area.

Position: Associate Professor
Education Background: Ph.D. in Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University (USA)
Research Areas: Nationalism and identity theories, and national identity politics, policies, and practices, with a special focus on identity issues and their perceptions in the public narratives in the former Soviet area

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Serik Orazgaliyev
Associate Professor
Dr Serik Orazgaliyev joined the Graduate School of Public Policy as an Instructor in 2016. Dr Orazgaliyev has PhD in Development Studies, University of Cambridge.

Position: Associate Professor
Education Background: Ph.D. in Development Studies, University of Cambridge (UK)
Research Areas: Governments and multinational enterprises (MNEs), institutions and development policies, political economy of state, democracy and social media

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Dina Sharipova
Associate Professor & Vice Dean for Research
Dr. Sharipova received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University in 2013. Since 2013 she worked at KIMEP University in the Department of International Relations and Regional Studies.

Position: Associate Professor & Vice Dean for Research
Education Background: Ph.D. in Political Science, Indiana University (USA)
Research Areas: Nation and state-building, security issues, formal and informal institutions, civil society, social capital, and well-being in Central Asia

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Simeon Nanovsky
Assistant Professor
Dr. Simeon Nanovsky obtained his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Kentucky. Research interests of Dr. Nanovsky include International Economics; and Macroeconomics. Before joining Nazarbayev University Semion Nanovsky was teaching as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Florida.

Position: Assistant Professor
Education Background: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Kentucky (USA)
Research Areas: International economics; and macroeconomics

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Stefanos Xenarios
Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., Environmental Economics, 2007, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greece)

Position: Adjunct Associate Professor
Education Background: Ph.D. in Environmental Economics, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greece)
Research Areas: Natural resources management, environmental policy and economics, decision aiding systems, hydro-economic modelling, water-energy-food nexus, agricultural policy and rural development, stakeholder analysis

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Eduardo Araral
Vice Dean for Research and Associate Professor
PhD (Public Policy) Indiana University-Bloomington

Position: Visiting Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Education Background: Ph.D. in Public Policy, Indiana University-Bloomington (USA)
Research Areas: Climate change, decentralisation and federalism, regulatory policy, sustainable development, water management, governance and policy

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