Akram Umarov

Akram Umarov is Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced International Studies and Associate Professor at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy. Recently he has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Center for Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh. Previously he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies and the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Uzbekistan. Dr. Umarov is the author of the monograph “Afghanistan and regional security of Central Asia: the beginning of the XXI century” (in Russian) (UWED, 2017).