Teacher of English. She earned her MA in International Development from the International University of Japan (IUJ) in Niigata, Japan. She has over 10 years of work and consulting experience in project assessment and management at the USAID in Central Asia, UN University in Tokyo, Asian Development Bank and AVIVA, the largest insurance company in UK. She has also taught courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, industrial organization, environmental and natural resource economics, project management and intensive Business English at KIMEP and IAB in Almaty, and at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.