CEPS and FRIDE established an Expert Working Group (EWG) to monitor EU-Central Asian relations. The group consists of 10 experts from the EU and Central Asia, and convenes on a regular basis to discuss EU policy towards the region.
In addition to promoting debate on EU-Central Asian relations, the EUCAM Expert Working Group produces regular policy briefs and working papers in the following areas: democracy and human rights; energy and natural resources; security and stability; education and social relations among other areas.
Anton ARTEMYEV
is currently director of the Kazakhstan Revenue Watch Program (KRW) of the Soros Foundation - Kazakhstan. Anton is an Economics graduate of Moscow Academy of Labor and Social Relations (2000). Being Director of KRW, Anton has been involved in the promotion of Extractive Industries Initiative in Kazakhstan since 2004. Since May 2008 Anton is a member of the international EITI Board.
Michael DENISON
is Research Director at Control Risks, a leading international business consultancy. He was formerly Special Adviser to the UK Foreign Secretary, Lecturer in International Security at the University of Leeds, and Associate Fellow at Chatham House. He has published widely on Central Asia including in IISS Strategic Survey, Europe-Asia Studies, OstEuropa, the World Today and for the Centre for European Policy Studies.
Nicolás DE PEDRO
is the Expert adviser on Central Asia for the Opex (Spanish Observatory on Foreign Policy) from Fundación Alternativas. He is a PhD candidate and researcher in International Relations at the Complutense University in Madrid. In 2006 he was awarded a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in International Law and International Relations. He has a Master in International Media and Southern Countries and a degree in Modern History from the Complutense University.
Matteo FUMAGALLI
is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Central European University in Budapest (Hungary). His current projects are on social activism in authoritarian states, transnational migration across the former Soviet Union, and on EU-Central Asian relations.
Nargis KASSENOVA
is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Sciences of the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP). Her main areas of research are Central Asian Security, Eurasian geopolitics, EU-Central Asia relations, and Kazakhstan's foreign policy.
Sébastien PEYROUSE
is a Senior Research Fellow at the Central Asia and Caucasus Institute (Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies) in Washington, D.C., and an Associate Scholar at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) in Paris. His main areas of expertise are political regimes in Central Asia, Islamism, religious minorities and geopolitics.
Gulnura TORALIEVA
has a BA and MA degrees with honors in International Journalism from Kyrgyz-Russian Slavonic Universitiy. She has been working for Institute for Public Policy (IPP) since May 2006. From May 2007 and up to present she is working as IPP's Program Director. Mrs. Toralieva has extensive experience in facilitating trainings, news-reporting, writing and editing of handbooks for journalists and video film production.
