Faculty & Staff

Akylai Muktarbek kyzy

Director MsEco, Assistant Professor

Economics Department

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