Our next NU Step to PHD guest is Aliya Assubayeva, a Ph.D graduate at NU GSPP. Her thesis contributes to understanding how water security is perceived in Central Asia and whether river basin management can strengthen water security in Kazakhstan. As part of the doctoral program, she completed research internships at Oulu University (Finland) and […]
On June 10, 2022, Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy (NU GSPP) hosted the School’s annual graduation ceremony. This year 100 students – including 37 students under the Master in Public Policy (MPP) program, 57 students under the Master in Public Administration (MPA) program, and 6 students under the PhD in Public Policy program […]
On June 7, 2022, the Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy (NU GSPP) hosted the sixth annual international conference on “Public Policy and Good Governance in a Changing World”. A GSPP Committee led by Vice Dean for Research, Prof. Riccardo Pelizzo, organized the Conference in partnership with National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew […]
Dr. Serik Orazgaliyev, an Assistant Professor at the NU Graduate School of Public Policy, won the 2022 NU Teaching Award for Internationalization. The NU Teaching Awards recognize outstanding university teaching performed by faculty, teaching fellows, instructors, teaching assistants and graduate teaching assistants. Each year, since 2017, the NU Learning and Teaching Committee reviews the nominations […]
On May 19, 2022, NU GSPP hosted a guest lecture by Ivailo Izvorski, the World Bank’s Practice Manager on the Global Macro and Debt Analytics, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment. Mr. Izvorski discussed the options for upgrading Kazakhstan’s economy in the lecture titled “Kazakhstan: dependence – distance – dispersal”. During the discussion, the speaker stressed the main challenges of […]