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Holly Nielsen sits on the board of directors to private equity funds of the Baring Private Equity Group in Europe and to Plata Group, a fintech business in Mexico, and is international legal counsel for Kaspi.kz, a Kazakh fintech company listed on NASDAQ.
Olena Nikolayenko’s research interests include comparative democratization, social movements, and protest behavior, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe.
Dmitriy Nurullayev teaches at the College of Applied Science and Technology at the University of Arizona and was a 2023 summer visiting scholar at the Davis Center.
