Vice President for Academic Affairs
Head, Division of Economics and Environmental Studies August, 2017 - present
Chair, Department of Economics September, 2014 - present
Associate Professor, Department of Economics September, 2012 - present
Courses taught:
Chair, Faculty Senate of AUCA September, 2017 - present
Teaching Research Fellow
Courses taught:
Visiting Assistant Professor August, 2011 - August 2012
Courses taught:
Visiting Assistant Professor July, 2010 - July 2011
Courses taught:
Research Assistant Fall 2009-Summer 2010
Triangle Census Research Data Center
Instructor Summer 2009
Courses taught:
Teaching Assistant: Fall 2008-Spring 2009
Research Assistant Fall 2005-Spring 2007
Research Assistant for Professor Charles Becker
USAID: Building the Future Research Grant, AUCA, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Households carbon footprint and socio-economic patterns of direct and indi- rect carbon dioxide emission in the Kyrgyz Republic (with Rahat Sabyrbekov)
January 2019 - current
USAID: Building the Future Research Grant, AUCA, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
How do Post-secondary Students and Employers in Kyrgyzstan Prioritize Employable Skills? (with Tamo Chattopadhay)
January 2019 - current
ADB Pro ject, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Gender and Development Expert
Project: Women’s Entrepreneurship Development
August, 2016 - December, 2017
UN-Women Project, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Analyst/Quality Control Supervisor
Project: Gender in Society Perception Study: Women’s Economic Empowerment Component
April, 2016 - September, 2016
UNDP Project, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Project Leader
Project: Increasing awareness on gender through the prizms of poverty-environment and biodiversity.
August, 2015 - December, 2015
UNDP Project, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Primary Investigator
Project: Gender issues in accessing natural resources in Kyrgyzstan.
November, 2014 - December, 2014
International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC USA
IMF Summer Intern
Worked on the project ”Public Investment in Developing countries: Crowding in, Crowd- ing out or Both”, Middle East and Central Asia Department
Summer 2007
Oxford Policy Management, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Local Consultant
Project: Statistical Capacity Building in Support of the Comprehensive Development Framework, funded by the United Kingdoms Department for International Development (DFID).
June, 2001 - August, 2002
Asian Development Bank, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Local Consultant
Project: Support to the National Strategy on Poverty Reduction.
September, 2000 - May, 2001
European Commission, TACIS Programme (Technical Aid to the Commonwealth of Independent States), Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Macroeconomist/Econometrician
Project: Long Term Scientific Prognosis of Social and Economic Development in Kyr- gyzstan.
August, 1999 - August, 2000