Please join the Fletcher Political Risk Conference for a conversation with Gaukhar Nurgalieva on geo-economics of Eurasia.

Gaukhar Nurgalieva is an international negotiations professional with expertise in foreign direct investments and public-private partnerships.  She is currently working as Head of Eurasian Studies at the Skolkovo Institute of Emerging Markets Studies (IEMS), an international business think tank that is supported by EY in Russia, China and India.  In Russia, Skolkovo IEMS is part of the Skolkovo – Moscow School of Management, a leading private business school in Russia. Her research work and educational material development is focused on Russia and Eurasia, geoeconomics and infrastructure, development finance, negotiations, Islamic economy, migration.  Prior to her involvement in the academia, she served as an Adviser to the Minister on Transport and Infrastructure at the Eurasian Economic Commission in Moscow, where she dealt with transportation projects and integration policies of the Eurasian Economic Union members. Before relocating to Moscow in 2012, she worked in Astana, Kazakhstan as a Managing Director for Corporate Development and Investment at the National Mining Company Tauken-Samruk, part of the National Wealth Fund “SamrukKazyna” and as a Regional Director for Asia at Kazakhstan’s National Agency for Export and Investment Promotion under Ministry of Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan. From 2006 to 2010, she was the Founder and General Director of Bookmark Bookstores, the first western-style bookstores in Kazakhstan. And prior to her entrepreneurship, Gaukhar Nurgalieva worked at PwC in Kazakhstan.

Gaukhar Nurgalieva holds an MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Boston (2014), an MBA from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia (2010) and a BBA from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (2001).

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