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EUCAM Co-Chairs

Jos Boonstra

is senior researcher democratisation at FRIDE where he focuses on NATO, OSCE and EU democratisation policies in the Balkans, Turkey, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.  Before joining FRIDE he was programme manager and head of research at the Centre for European security Studies (CESS) in the Netherlands were he was involved with the design and implementation of multi-country security sector reform and governance programmes in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Turkey.  Jos Boonstra completed MA’s in Contemporary History and in International Relations at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

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Michael Emerson

is senior research fellow and programme director for European foreign, security and neighbourhood policies at CEPS.  Mr Emerson has a variety of publications on his name on EU integration, the wider Europe and contemporary European conflict areas.  He is a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford and during his career held positions at the OECD in Paris (1966-1973), the European Commission (1973-1996), including the position of EU ambassador to Moscow.  Before joining CEPS he was senior research fellow at the London School of Economics.

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EUCAM Coordinators

Nafisa Hasanova

holds an MA in Intercultural Communication and European Studies at the University of Applied Studies in Fulda, Germany.  She completed a BA in English Philology at the Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages in Uzbekistan and gained working experience as a visiting fellow at CEPS in 2007 and through an internship at the German Bundestag (2006). In Uzbekistan she has worked as a global exchange volunteer for several organisations such as the British Council and the Red Crescent Society Uzbekistan and she has worked as a programme assistant for the Freedom House in Samarkand. Her research interests are: Uzbekistan, Central Asian Roma, border studies and political anthropology.

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Aigerim Duimagambetova

Holds an M.P.P. degree from the Erfurt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt (Germany). She also has a Master’s degree in International Journalism from the Kazakh National University and 6 years of working experience as a reporter, radio and TV journalist in the Kazakh mass media. Her scientific interests lay in the areas of Central Asian affairs, external policies of the Republic of Kazakhstan and regional ecological issues. 

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Policy Briefs

Policy Brief

No. 13

Into EurAsia - Monitoring the EU's Central Asia Strategy: executive summary and recommendations

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Working Papers

Working Paper

No. 9

The EU-Central Asia Education Initiative

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