Affiliation: Acting head of Center for Natural Resources and Sustainability, Kazakh German University; Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE), Germany, (TRANSECT research group)

Research interest: Geographical transformation and development studies, agriculture and agroforestry, complex social-ecological systems research.

Email:Henryk.Alff@hnee.de

Affiliation: Deputy Director at the Scientific Information Centre of Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC ICWC) in Central Asia, Associate Professor at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers. 

Research interest: public international law, transboundary waters, water diplomacy and security.

Email: dinara.ziganshina@gmail.com

Affiliation: Associate professor, Leader, Hydrosystems engineering and management research group, University of Oulu, Finland. 

Research interest: Lake and river flow regime, Large-scale Hydrology, Cold climate hydrology, Environmental Flow assessment, Sustainable water resources development, Extreme hydrology, River Engineering, Remote sensing in water resources, Dam and hydro power operation and Geotechnical engineering.

Email: ali.torabihaghighi@oulu.fi

Affiliation: Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institute of Geographical Sciences, Workgroup Globalisation, Transformation, Gender. 

Research interest: Development geography, Transformation studies, Political geography, Political ecology, Human-environment relations, Commons.

Email: andrei.doerre@fu-berlin.de

Affiliation: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany

Research interest: agrarian institutions in land and water management; agricultural innovations and sustainability; agricultural policy issues; Central Asian agricultural development

Email: ndjanibeko@gmail.com

Affiliation: Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University

Research interests: water/wastewater treatment, pressure driven membranes, fouling mechanisms and control, colloids’ transport mechanisms through nanopores, nanotools for membrane pore size determination, forward osmosis, membrane distillation.

Email: yelyzaveta.arkhangelsky@nu.edu.kz