Undergraduate Diploma (Hons) in International Relations, St. Petersburg State University; Master's in Finance, Sciences Po, Paris; PhD, University of Cambridge; exchange programme in Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo. Has worked on transactions in Central Asia and Eastern Europe as analyst in a London-based bank. Former: Member, Youth Red Cross; Member, United Nations Association; President, Cambridge University Russian Society. Active in joint projects with local academics in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan; Fellow, Cambridge Central Asia Forum. Author of several academic and analytical publications in English and Russian languages. Interests: contemporary life of the Silk Route region, its international politics, local nationalism and identity processes, and political economy; balalaika; basketball; What? Where? When? (a team trivia sport popular in post-Soviet countries); Uzbek cuisine.

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