EUCAM / FRIDE
Jos Boonstra
EUCAM head of programme
Jos Boonstra is a senior researcher at FRIDE. His research focuses on Eurasian and transatlantic security issues (foremost EU, NATO and OSCE policies) as well as democratisation in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Before joining FRIDE, he was programme manager at the Centre for European Security Studies (CESS), Groningen, The Netherlands. Jos has an MA in International Relations and one in History from the University of Groningen.
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Nafisa Hasanova
EUCAM programme manager / website editor
Currently a PhD student at ULB, Nafisa, 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 anthropology.
Tika Tsertsvadze
EUCAM programme manager / outreach officer
Tika Tsertsvadze holds an MA in Political and International relations from the University of Georgia. Throughout her studies she did internships at the UNDP Tbilisi office and Ministry of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia. Between 2004-2006 she, as a volunteer, devoted her efforts to the creation of the first local branch of the pan European youth association AEGEE in the Caucasus. In 2007 she joined the executive board of AEGEE-Europe to be responsible for European Institutions, and a Vice-President. Later she worked on the European Parliament election campaign with the Party of European Socialists and with the Open Society Institute - Brussels.
Natalia Shapovalova
EUCAM researcher
Natalia Shapovalova is a researcher at FRIDE. Prior to joining FRIDE, she was a researcher at the International Centre for Policy Studies in Kiev, Ukraine (2005-8). She has an MA in European Public Affairs from Maastricht University, The Netherlands, an MA in International Relations from the Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, and a BA in Political Science from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. Her research focuses mainly on Ukraine, Eastern Partnership, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
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Sébastien Peyrouse
EUCAM Researcher
Sébastien Peyrouse is a senior research fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies programme, a joint centre affiliated with Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. Next to this Sébastien joined FRIDE as an associate researcher and is also an associated fellow at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations, Paris. Sébastien was a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow at the French Institute for Central Asia Studies in Tashkent (1998-2000 and 2002-2005). His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia, Islam and religious minorities, and Central Asia's geopolitical positioning toward China, India and South Asia.
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Marlène Laruelle
EUCAM Researcher
Marlène Laruelle is director of the Central Asia Program (CAP) of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC. She is also an associate researcher with FRIDE, an associate scholar at the French Center for Russian, Caucasian and East European Studies, School of Advanced Social Sciences Studies (EHESS), and at the Post-Soviet Studies Department at Sciences Po, Paris. Marlène has expertise in Russian and Central Asian foreign policy think tanks and academia, and in Russian policy towards Central Asia. Her main areas of expertise are nationalism, national identities, political philosophy, intellectual trends and geopolitical conceptions of local elites in Russia and Central Asia.
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Vera Axyonova
EUCAM Associate Researcher
is an associate researcher with FRIDE/EUCAM and a PhD fellow at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences. She holds an MA in Intercultural Communication and European Studies from Fulda University of Applied Sciences and a Diploma in International Relations from East Kazakhstan State University. Her primary research interests are external democratisation and human rights promotion, civil society development, the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU, and Central Asian affairs. Vera has worked on election observation and conducted research at various institutions, including the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels and the Prague office of the OSCE Secretariat.
Aigerim Duimagambetova
Translator
Studied International Journalism at the Kazakh National University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt (Erfurt, Germany). Has more than 8 years of working experience as a journalist in Kazakh mass media, worked as a junior coordinator at the EUCAM project during Phase I, also was part of the UNDP water project for Central Asia in a position of Information Officer.
