Malika Toqmadi is a doctoral researcher at University College London (UCL) and a co-founder of PaperLab, a leading public policy research center based in Kazakhstan. Malika has extensive experience working with civil society and with international organizations in Central Asia, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and World Bank. She co-edited Kazakhstan’s Shadow Report to the U.N. on the Observance of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and was a contributing author of Freedom House's “Nations in Transit” in 2018-2021.
Malika has been a fellow with the Davis Center for academic years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.
