Academic degree
- Candidate of Political Sciences, specialty 23.00.04 – Political Issues of International Relations and Global Development.
Research interests
- International relations and Central Asian security; SCO integration processes; ethnopolitics and interethnic relations; public-policy analysis; prevention of religious extremism and terrorism; labour market and youth policy.
Contacts
- Phone: +7 775 561 5788
- E-mail: gulden.data@gmail.com
Education
- 2005–2008 – full-time postgraduate studies, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, specialty 23.00.04.
- 2000–2005 – Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science; political scientist and lecturer in political science, honours diploma.
Professional experience
- 02 Feb 2026–03 Jul 2026 – Head of Postgraduate Education Department, ESIL University; part-time lecturer in History of Kazakhstan.
- 04 Nov 2024–12 Dec 2025 – Deputy Director, Block Partner LLP.
- Mar 2023–16 Oct 2024 – Chief Expert, Committee for Development of Interethnic Relations, Ministry of Information and Culture of Kazakhstan.
- Earlier – expert, research and teaching positions in public institutions, research centres and educational organisations.
Professional achievements
- Author/co-author of more than 100 informational and academic publications.
- Co-author of the monograph “The Role of Mass Media in Ethnopolitical Processes: Kazakhstan Experience” (2010).
- Contributed to methodological recommendations and conceptual documents on countering religious extremism and terrorism.
Professional development (last 5 years)
- 2021 – course on the Administrative Procedural and Process-Related Code of Kazakhstan.
- 2021 – GIZ training “Approaches to Mediation of Interethnic Conflicts”.