Aigerim Yergabulova received her PhD in Economics from KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research interests lie in the area of Applied Microeconomics, in particular, within fields of Labor Economics, Applied Industrial Organization, and International Trade. Her doctoral thesis is centered around the analysis of the role of firm heterogeneity in aggregate outcomes. Her research also focuses on firm dynamics and globalization, and micro foundations of macroeconomic fluctuations.

Dr. David De Remer received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2012, and he also holds a Master’s degree in Statistics and Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. His primary research fields are international trade and industrial organization. His primary research interest is in international economic cooperation, including trade agreements and their distributional consequences. His research has been published in the Journal of International Economics, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the World Trade Review, and the MIT Press conference volume The World Trade Organisation and Economic Development. Prior to joining NU GSB, David was an assistant professor at the International School of Economics at Kazakh-British Technical University and a lecturer at Northeastern University (USA). Prior to doctoral studies, David worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Dr. Roza Nurgozhayeva completed her bachelor’s degrees in law (cum laude) and economics in Kazakhstan and LL.M. at Cornell Law School. She holds a doctorate of the science of law, also from Cornell. From 2018 till 2020, Dr. Nurgozhayeva was a post-doctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Law and the NUS Center for Asian Legal Studies. Prior to joining the school, Dr. Nurgozhayeva served as Vice President-General Counsel at Nazarbayev University and practiced law for more than seven years in the banking industry.
Her research interests include comparative law, corporate governance, corporate law, state-owned enterprises, emerging markets and law, law and sustainable development. She has been a speaker at international investment forums. She presented at research workshops and conferences organized by the University of Cambridge, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cornell, and the National University of Singapore. Dr. Nurgozhayeva’s article “Rule-Making, Rule-Taking or Rule-Rejecting under the Belt and Road Initiative: A Central Asian Perspective” was listed in the Best of 2020 law articles from Oxford University Press in the sub-category Comparative Law.