Dr. Aliya Tankibayeva (PhD, MPA) is a senior lecturer and researcher at the al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Department of Recreational Geography and Tourism, Kazakhstan. Her research interests are sustainable resource policy, gender policy, and women's leadership. She has co-authored journal articles and policy papers on women's leadership in sustainable natural resources management, including those from a comparative perspective. She was a Kazakhstan country co-investigator for GLOBE-2020 (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness), a world study on leadership practices and ideals.
Dinara Seitova is Assistant Professor at KIMEP University, Kazakhstan, a western-style university and one of the leading universities in Central Asia.
Gary N. McLean has 50 years of experience as an HRD/OD consultant, working extensively globally, including being a PI on a USAID project on educational reform in Kyrgyzstan. He is currently a full-time professor in the PhD program in the School of Human Resource and Organization Development at the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), Bangkok, Thailand.