Kasiet Ysmanova, is director at CAB and an experienced analytical design, collection, and implementation leader with over 3 years of experience carrying out research projects all over Central Asia. She has led research teams spanning the entire research cycle, to include developing research plans, carrying out data quality assessments, establishing sampling parameters, designing assessment tools, developing, and conducting researcher training, conducting interviews and focus groups, analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, and creating reports/providing briefings. She holds an MA in Politics and Security from the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She has broad international and regional experience both in the forms of her studies and work.
Peter Blair Henry is the Class of 1984 Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and Dean Emeritus of New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. The youngest person ever named to the Stern Deanship, Peter served as Dean from January 2010 through December 2017 and doubled the school’s average annual fundraising. Formerly the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Economics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, from 2001–2006 Peter’s research was funded by an NSF CAREER Award, and he has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in the flagship journals of economics and finance, as well as a book on global economic policy, Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth (Basic Books). A Vice Chair of the Boards of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Economic Club of New York, Peter also serves on the Boards of Citigroup and Nike. In 2015, he received the Foreign Policy Association Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the organization, and in 2016 he was honored as one of the Carnegie Foundation’s Great Immigrants.
Professor Henderson is able to offer PhD supervision on comparative as well as UK and Canadian topics covering 4 themes: electoral and referendum behaviour (voters and parties), electoral systems and electoral reform territorial politics and federalism, nationalism and devolution political culture, political attitudes and public opinion civic engagement, especially among young people, and mandated participation (eg compulsory voting and compulsory community service)
Luc Turgeon is full professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is also affiliated to the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie, le Groupe de recherche sur les sociétés plurinationales and the Research Centre on the Future of Cities. His main areas of research include public opinion on immigration and ethnocultural diversity, the bureaucratic representation of minorities and the politics of multinational states. He is the co-editors of two books, both published by UBC Press.
Dr. Antoine Bilodeau’s research focuses on the political integration of immigrants in Canada and other Western democracies and on understanding the roots of views toward immigration and ethnic diversity. He also studies questions relating to youth political engagement and political socialization. Dr. Bilodeau is the leader of the Provincial Diversity Project with Luc Turgeon (Ottawa), Ailsa Henderson (Edinburgh) and Stephen White (Concordia). Dr. Bilodeau is a member of the steering committee for the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, a senior research affiliate with the Canadian Network for research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS), and a member of the Center for Immigration Policy Evaluation.