Nazir Sharifi

Chairman

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Mr. Sharifi has been serving as the Director for Strategic Development of Gazpetro Poland. He previously held positions as a General director of Tethys Services Tajikistan Limited and the director of the Representative Office of Kulob Petroleum in Tajikistan. Before entering the oil and gas industry, Mr. Sharifi worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, serving at the Tajik diplomatic missions in Kazakhstan and the US. His last position with the MFA of Tajikistan was as the Head of the Department of Foreign Service. 

Ivan Apanasevich

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Ivan Apanasevich is a civil society capacity building and governance expert with over twenty years of experience managing international development programs. While holding various positions with ICNL, Counterpart International, USAID, the Soros Foundation, Chemonics, MSI, NDI, and other international and local organizations, he gained extensive experience in monitoring and implementing programs aimed at local civil society development.

Kasim Abzhanov

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From 2000 to 2002, Kasim Abzhanov served as Head of the Department of Planning and Analysis at the Accept Corporation. From 2002 to 2004, he was a leading accountant and the Deputy Chief Accountant with the AGIP Kazakhstan North Caspian Operating Company. From 2005 – 2006, Mr. Abzhanov was the Financial Manager and Chief Accountant for ERSAI, a Caspian contractor. He then served as President of the Lancaster Group, and is now a member of the Lancaster Group Board of Directors, http://www.lancasterholding.com.

Adalyat Abdumanapova

Corporate Governance Officer, Team Leader IFC Environment, Social and Corporate Governance Program in Europe and Central Asia

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Adalyat has more than 18 years’ professional experience in corporate governance and sustainable development. Adalyat has joined International Finance Corporation in 2006 and currently leads the IFC Corporate Governance Project in few countries of Europe and Central Asia region, including Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Albania and Kosovo advising and delivering professional training to private and quasi-state businesses on improving corporate governance practices.

Lisa Coll

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Lisa Coll is president of Eurasia Foundation

Lisa Coll is president of Eurasia Foundation. She has over 25 years of international development experience in the democracy and governance sector. Since 2001, Coll has played a key role at Eurasia Foundation, including guiding the localization of EF’s regional offices between 2004 and 2010, and spearheading the development of the Capacity Mapping Assessment tool, an organizational assessment method custom-built for EF’s partner foundations. From 1999 to 2001, Coll served as EF’s Central Asia director, based in Tashkent, overseeing a small grants program in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Dinara Musabekova

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Director of Civil Society Initiative of the University of Central Asia

In present, Dinara Musabekova is a Director of the Civil Society Initiative based at UCA, leverage the Aga Khan Development Network’s vast experience and current practice in this field. She leads this new initiative whose initial geographical coverage is Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, and eventually expanding to North-Eastern Afghanistan. This involves a granular analysis of the state of civil society, identifying critical sectors and activities to support their growth, and public policies that could frame a more enabling environment for their development.

 

Azalia Dairbekova

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Head of the project office of the Eurasia Foundation in Almaty

Azalia has extensive experience in the sphere of non-profit management, private sector development, program and policy development, project management, and training and consulting services. She has participated in the implementation of a number of economic reform and development initiatives in Central Asia financed by diverse international agencies, and has worked in the sphere of international development and international banking at UN headquarters and in a number of leading US banks.