Faculty and Research
KIMEP has over 200 faculty members coming from more than 40 countries. KIMEP has 84 instructors with terminal degrees, 77 of which have PhDs. This is the highest such concentration of any institution in the entire CIS. KIMEP professors come from a wide variety of background and KIMEP’s combined research output has steadily increased over the past few years.
KIMEP espouses “student-centered” education. All instructors maintain office hours during which they are available to meet personally with students. Classes are meant to include class discussion and critical analysis of subject matter.
Research focuses on issues critical to Central Asia’s long-term development. Last year, KIMEP faculty members attended more than 100 conferences and published more than 110 articles and books.
Notable faculty members include:
- Amin Aloysius Ajab, Chair of the Economics Department, economics and development scholar, former Deputy Director and Head of Training at the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP)
- Zhuldyzbek Abylkhoznin, a famous scholar of Kazakhstan History;
- John JA Burke, widely published scholar, former Rector and Professor of Law of the Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia
- John Dixon, public policy scholar, published in over 29 books and refereed in over 150 articles
- Zhenis Kembayev, scholar of Public International Law, Law of the European Union and Constitutional Law of Kazakhstan, expert in the field of regional integration theory and regional integration processes in the post-Soviet states
- Gavin Kretzschmar, PricewaterhouseCoopers Chair of Accounting, co-serves as Director of Finance and Risk at the University of Edinburgh, formerly the Finance Director of Standard Bank (SA) Retail
- Kanat Kudaibergenov, mathematician
- Tomas Balco, an internationally recognized tax expert and founder of the Central Asian Tax Research Center at KIMEP
- Roman Podoprigora, frequent consultant to the Supreme Court and Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan; Deputy Chair, Financial & Tax Law Research Institute, since 2008.
- Vassily Voinov, statistician, major developer of extensions of khi-square distributions
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