BEYOND BORDERS: CENTRAL ASIA IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, WATER SCARCITY, AND MIGRATION CHALLENGES
Professor Tilman Brück (IGZ, Humboldt-University of Berlin and ISDC)
Professor Tilman Brück is a development economist analysing the behaviour and welfare of poor and vulnerable people and households in conflict-affected, fragile and humanitarian emergency settings, how policies and programmes can support people in such settings and how to conduct research in such settings. Tilman is Head of the Research Group ‘Economic Development and Food Security’ at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) in Großbeeren near Berlin, Professor for Economic Development and Food Security at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin, and Founder and Director of ISDC - International Security and Development Center in Berlin. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study, the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Households in Conflict Network, and a co-founder of the Global Young Academy. Tilman Brück studied economics at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford and obtained a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford.
Dr Asel Murzakulova (GSD, University of Central Asia)
Dr Asel Murzakulova is a Senior Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Development (GDS) of University of Central Asia and Co-Founder of the analytical club "Mongu". She has extensive work experience with governmental, international, and civil organizations in Central Asia. In 2008, she was a visiting scholar at the Davis Center at Harvard University, and in 2013, at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California in Berkeley. In 2023 she was invited scholar at IRES Uppsala University. Her research covers border dynamics and human mobility, environmental change, natural resource management and nationalism. Currently, she is engaged in environmental security and conflict-related research, with a focus on resource management challenges across Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Border. In 2013, she was awarded the International Medal of the Commission of National Education of Poland for her contribution to the development of civic education in Kyrgyzstan.
