Crossroads Central Asia is an independent research institute in Central Asia
Crossroads Central Asia works through a network of fellows and partners rather than a permanent staff.
Political scientist working on Central Asian foreign policy and regional cooperation. He co-founded Crossroads Central Asia, leads Target Research, and was previously Deputy Director of the OSCE Academy in Bishkek.
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Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Central Asia at Harvard's Davis Center. She works on Central Asian politics and security, Eurasian geopolitics and China's Belt and Road Initiative.
Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Centre, an independent international affairs think tank in London. She co-founded and co-chairs the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition.
Managing Director of the European Neighbourhood Council, an independent think tank in Brussels. He works on EU relations with Central Asia and Turkey, geo-economics and energy security.
Senior Fellows, Research Fellows and Research Associates write and research with CCA as non-resident members of its network.
Leading Researcher, Populist Encounters group, Riga Stradiņš University; Research Fellow, Foreign Policy Centre. Former Executive Director of CCA.
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Political scientist and regular commentator on politics in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Co-founder of CCA. PhD, University of Maryland.
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Researcher working on international development, welfare and social policy in Tajikistan and Poland, and on post-socialist societies more broadly.
Associated researcher, Collaborative Research Centre 1342 “Global Dynamics of Social Policy”, University of Bremen. Healthcare systems, social policy and labour migration.
Assistant Professor, Research Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen. Social media, digital vigilantism and public shaming in Russia and Central Asia.
Associate Professor, Institute of History and Area Studies, Jusup Balasagyn Kyrgyz National University. Contemporary history and Kyrgyzstan's foreign policy.
Environmental economist working on energy transition and data analytics. Data Scientist, Bentley University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University.
Associate Professor and Vice-President for Science and Innovation, Kazakh-German University, Almaty. Social movements, protest and civil society.