Akylai Muktarbek kyzy
Director MsEco, Assistant Professor
Division of Applied Sciences
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Assistant Professor
Master of Arts in Talent Management and Human Potential Development in Organizations
Division of Social Sciences
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Room: 215
Akylai Muktarbek kyzy is the Director of the Master (M.Sc.) in Economics Program and an Assistant Professor both in the Economics department and Master of Arts in Talent Management and Human Potential Development in Organizations (TALENT) Program at the American University of Central Asia. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the School of Economics and Business of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Norway). She earned her Master of Arts degree in Economics (diploma with merits) from Central European University (2012, Hungary) and her Bachelor of Arts in Economics (summa cum laude) from the American University of Central Asia (2010, Kyrgyzstan).
Akylai joined AUCA in 2012 as an Instructor and was promoted to Assistant Professor and Director of the M.Sc. in Economics Program. In 2017, the Center for Environment and Development was launched at AUCA, and Akylai joined it as a Senior Researcher. Currently, she is the Interim Director of the Center for Environment and Development. She is a Teaching Fellow at the OSCE Academy. She was also an external researcher at the Center for Economic Research of the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (2015-2016).
- SIU Ph.D. Fellowship by the Norwegian Center for International Cooperation in Higher Education, 2016-2020
- HESP AFP Returning Scholar Fellowship by Open Society Foundations, 2012-2015
- CEU fellowship for graduate students, 2010-2012
- AUCA scholarship for Golden Certificate winners, 2006-2010
- Impact evaluation of development projects
- Labor economics
- Quantitative data analysis of household surveys
- Sustainable development
- Muktarbek kyzy, A. “School attendance: demographic differences and the effect of a primary school meal program in Kyrgyzstan”, Educational Research and Evaluation, 25:7-8, 381-411, 2020, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13803611.2020.1862677
- Muktarbek kyzy, A. “Gender aspects of saving behavior of households in Kyrgyz Republic” National Bank of Kyrgyz Republic Working Paper Nr. 1, 2016, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, https://www.nbkr.kg/DOC/22082016/000000000043715.pdf
- Seyitov, T., and Muktarbek kyzy, A. “Activities of licensed exchange bureaus in Bishkek” National Bank of Kyrgyz Republic Working Paper Nr. 1, 2015, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, https://www.nbkr.kg/DOC/16092015/000000000037610.pdf
- Muktarbek kyzy, A., Seyitov, T., and Jenish, N. “Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of Households in the Kyrgyz Republic” National Bank of Kyrgyz Republic Working Paper Nr. 2, 2015, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, https://www.nbkr.kg/DOC/31032016/000000000041415.pdf
Contributing author:
- “Green economy learning assessment for the Kyrgyz Republic” Authors: CED AUCA and TSPC AUCA. PAGE-UNITAR Project, 2018.
- “Gender, Poverty and Environment in Rural Kyrgyzstan: Issues of Natural Resources Management, Biodiversity and Environmental Degradation” Lead authors: Elena Kim, Nurgul Ukueva. Contributing authors: Rahat Sabyrbekov, Akylai Muktarbek kyzy, Asel Myrzabekova. UNDP-UNEP Poverty and Environmental Initiative in Kyrgyzstan, 2016.
- Research assistant: Nurbek Jenish “Export-driven SME Development in Kyrgyzstan: the Garment Manufacturing Sector” University of Central Asia. Graduate School of Development Working Paper No.26, 2014.
- Cross-Cultural Research in Human Resource Management
- Economic Research Methods
- Industrial Economics
- Internship
- Strategic Aspects of Human Potential Development
