Basskaran Nair, visiting professor at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, is the author of Marketing Public Policy: Complexity, Hurts and Minefields (2018).
Saltanat Janenova, with a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, has published widely on public sector reforms in Kazakhstan and Central Asian countries.
Balzhan Serikbayeva has worked for ten years in public service in Kazakhstan.