Graduate School of Public Policy
Graduate School of Public Policy
Graduate School of Public Policy

FACULTY

NU GSPP Professors
  • Weng Tat Hui
    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
    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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  • Dina Sharipova
    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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  • Omer F. Baris
    Position: Associate Professor
    Education Background: Ph.D. in Economics, Georgia State University (USA)
    Research Areas: Microeconomic 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
    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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  • Peter Howie
    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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  • Vladimir Kozlov
    Position: Associate Professor
    Education Background: Ph.D. in Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
    Research Areas: Population studies; migration studies; social epidemiology; economic demography; evidence-based policy; medical statistics; institutional and new political economy; social policy and well-being

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  • Murodbek Laljebaev
    Position: Associate Professor
    Education Background: Ph.D. in Natural Resources, Cornell University (USA)
    Research Areas: Sustainable energy, natural resources management, environmental governance, indigenous knowledge, Central Asia

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  • Dayashankar Maurya
    Position: Associate Professor
    Education Background: Ph.D. in Public Policy, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
    Research Areas: Public management reforms, inter-organizational relationships (contracting, public-private partnerships, collaboration), policy design & policy implementation, health policy & health financing

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  • Serik Orazgaliyev
    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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  • Zhanibek Arynov
    Position: Assistant Professor
    Education Background: Ph.D. in International Relations, University of St Andrews (UK)
    Research Areas: Central Asian regional cooperation and geopolitics; regional organizations in Central Asia/Eurasia; EU-Central Asia relations; Kazakhstan’s foreign policy; international identity, image and perception studies

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  • Aliya Assubayeva
    Position: Assistant Professor
    Education Background: Ph.D. in Public Policy, Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan)
    Research Areas: Water security, environmental governance and policies, sustainable development

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  • Clifford Wentworth Frasier
    Position: Assistant Professor
    Educational Background: Ph.D. in Public Administration, New York University (USA)
    Research Areas: Collective action in the voluntary sector, voluntary associations, interest group politics

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  • Hyesong Ha
    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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  • Artan Karini
    Position: Assistant Professor
    Education Background: Ph.D. in Public Affairs, Indiana University (USA)
    Research Areas: Public policy theory and practice, public sector human resource development and management, good governance

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  • Lisa Lim
    Position: Assistant Professor
    Education Background: Ph.D. in Education, University of Rochester (USA)
    Research Areas: Policy communication and education for development

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

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  • Alisher Tleubayev
    Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
    Education Background: Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)
    Research Areas: Agricultural economics, technical efficiency, corporate governance in agri-food enterprises, gender economics

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Adjunct Professors
  • Colin Knox
    Position: Adjunct Professor
    Education Background: Ph.D. in Public Policy, Queen’s University Belfast (UK)
    Research Areas: Public sector reform in developed and developing countries; local government; and public policy evaluation and the politics of divided societies

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  • Stefanos Xenarios
    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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