Dinara Nurusheva joined the EFCA team in 2017. In 2007 she graduated from the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages with a bachelor in international relations. She received a master's degree in global political economy from London, City University with a Bolashak scholarship in 2012. Dinara worked at public and private think tanks in Nur Sultan and Almaty, and also helped organize the PaperLab discussion panels in Nur-Sultan.