PhD, Acting Director of Center for Policy Research and Outreach

She successfully obtained her PhD degree from the Tashkent Institute of Finance. With her background in Econometrics and Statistics, coupled with her research expertise in Development Economics, Poverty, and Gender Dr. Nilufar Rashitova is committed to generating knowledge and insights that inform evidence-based policies and interventions for promoting sustainable development.

email: nrashitova@wiut.uz

Senior Research Fellow

She has a broad experience with academic, research, donor and UN organizations. Dr. Aswaf’s research interests are agricultural value-chains, rural development, rural youth, gender, and natural resource management. Having a Bsc in agriculture economics, she pursued Master’s and PhD in Development Studies (Netherlands and South Africa), respectively.

email: etenesh.bekelea@gmail.com

PhD, DSc, UNESCO Chair
Anticipatory Governance & Sustainable Policymaking

He is known for helping faculty and students fine-tune their research design and methodology. He examined and recommended governance, capacity systems, and M&E in over twenty countries. Pete’s publications appear in international journals, book chapters, and agency reports. A pioneer in open systems-driven facilitation, he is a frequent consultant to the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, UN agencies, USAID, and CGIAR centers, and is sought after for large group strategic planning. Pete is a Fulbright Scholar and W.K. Kellogg Fellow, earning his PhD from the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at Cornell University, but has lived and worked in Asia since 1994. As founder of CPRO, Pete loves talking new research methods and discovering novel ways to tackle complex problems.

email: pmalvicini@wiut.uz

PhD, Senior Research Fellow
UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Governance and Sustainable Policymaking

John is an award-winning futurist whose experience spans 45 countries on five continents over the past decade. He has worked with numerous universities, international development and humanitarian aid agencies, nonprofit foundations, Fortune 500 companies, and educational and cultural organizations, such as Asia Development Bank, NESTA, INTERPOL, The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and numerous UN agencies. John completed a PhD focused on Alternative Futures under the direction of Dr. Jim Dator at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. He is a member of the World Futures Studies Federation and the Association of Professional Futurists. John currently serves as the Co-Editor of World Futures Review: A Journal of Strategic Foresight.

email: jsweeney@wiut.uz