Dr Akram Umarov

About

Project role: support WP3 in developing and implementing Country-Specific Policy Governance Strategies; assessing public and HE sector needs; organising Executive Summer Schools, study trips and major policy forums; and contributing to academic outputs of the project and development of new funding initiatives.

Akram Umarov is Senior Research Fellow at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy. Previously he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. He received Master’s Degree in International Relations at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy.

He has great interest in security studies, conflict management, public diplomacy, Afghanistan, Central Asian studies, CIS countries, public administration, global security, peace and development.

Akram Umarov is the author of monograph “Afghanistan and regional security of Central Asia: the beginning of XXI century” (in Russian) (UWED, 2017) and book chapter “Donald Trump’s Presidency and the Implementation of OBOR in Central Asia” (in “Changing Regional Alliances for China and West”, eds. D.Lane, G.Zhu, Lexington Books, 2017). His articles have appeared in “Central Asian Affairs”, “Asia and Africa”, “National Strategy Issues”, “Comparative Politics”, “Defence Journal” and other peer reviewed journals.