About Academy / Advisory Council

The Advisory Council of the OSCE Academy in Bishkek is appointed by the Director of the Academy and confirmed during the Board of Trustees meeting. The Advisory Council is open to partner institutions and experienced individual academics who co-operated with the OSCE Academy.

 

Members of the Advisory Council may be asked for their opinion on all significant educational, training and research issues of the OSCE Academy, such as the future educational or scientific orientation and its possible changes, accepting new visiting faculty or researchers, organization of international meetings or changes in the general study regulations. The academic opinion of members of the Advisory Council shall serve as a recommendation for the proceedings of the Academy and for the decisions of Director.

 

The meetings of the Advisory Council are convened and chaired by the Director of the Academy. The Advisory Council does not need to meet physically. The membership in the Advisory Council is a position of honor.

Current Members of the Advisory Council are:

Dr. Gudrun Kramer (Institute for Integrative Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding, IICP), http://www.iicp.at

Dr. Fred Tanner (Geneva Centre for Security Policy, GCSP), http://www.gcsp.ch/ 

Prof. Dr. Bert G. Fragner (Austrian Academy of Science, Institute for Iranian Studies)

http://www.oeaw.ac.at/iran/ 

Emil Jurajev (Head of the Department for International and Comparative Politics, American University in Central Asia, AUCA),

http://www.auca.kg/textv/academics/programs/icp/index.html 

Prof. Dr. Murat Suyunbaev (Associate Professor at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic)

Prof. Dr. Dosym Satpaev (Director of the Assessment Risk Group, Almaty)

Dr. Pal Dunay (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI), http://www.sipri.org/ 

Dr. Frank Evers (Centre for OSCE Research, CORE), http://www.core-hamburg.de/ 

Dr. Andrea Berg (Human Rights Watch), http://www.hrw.org/

Dr. Vladimir Orlov (Director PIR Centre Moscow and Senior Fellow at GCSP)

Martina Huber (OSCE Secretariat Vienna), http://www.osce.org/ 

Prof. Dr. Sergei Lousianin (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, MGIMO), http://www.mgimo.ru/

Dr. Tim Epkenhans (Director, OSCE Academy in Bishkek), http://www.osce-academy.net/

Gerhard Schaumberger (Hilfswerk, Austria)