Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova
Vice Dean (International)
Director of the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies
Head of Leadership, Organisations, Behaviour and Reputation
Member of the University of Reading Senate
Principal Fellow, UK HEA
National Teaching Fellow (NTF)
Chair of the University of Reading's Community of Practice for NTFs and HEA Fellows
Chair of the British Institute of Energy Economics Council
Visiting Professor at Yeditepe Üniversitesi, Turkey
Specialisms
- Transitioning and Emerging Economies,
- Hydrocarbon Development,
- Energy Economics,
- Corporate Governance in Resource Rich Emerging Economies
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Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova is Director of the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies and Head of Leadership, Organisations, Behaviour and Reputation at Henley Business School. She is also a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA).
Yelena is a proponent of experiential learning and research-based teaching, joining Henley Business School's department of Leadership, Organisations, Behaviour and Reputation in 2012. After working as an Economic Adviser to the President of Kazakhstan, Yelena founded the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies at the University of Reading. She has a wide knowledge of emerging economies and their transition and was an economic adviser on Caspian issues to the Rt. Hon. Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Q.C., in the House of Lords. She was also an economic adviser to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kazakhstan (2006-2010) and is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and a Visiting Professor at Yeditepe Üniversitesi, Turkey.
Having co-authored the paper 'Corruption and Economic Development in Energy-Rich Economies' with Ali Kutan and Taner Yigit, Yelena received the prestigious Bergson Prize for the best paper published in Comparative Economic Studies from 2009-2010. The award included a monetary prize and a plaque, presented during the annual meetings of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies in Chicago.
Yelena was announced as the winner of the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme 2019, a prestigious award led by Advance HE to celebrate and reward outstanding individual impact across the UK. She is also a Certified Management and Business Educator and the Chair of the British Institute of Energy Economics Council.
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Presentation at the International Conference "Challenges of the Entrepreneurship", Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, February 16 2012. Presentation: "Local Content in Kazakhstan: Public View on the Entrepreneurship".
Public Lecture for the Kazakh students, studied in the UK at the UCL, London, 9 February 2012. Lecture: "Local Content in Kazakhstan. Results of the Study"
Ditchley conference, "The Central Asian Republics and Their International Partners". The Ditchley Foundation, Oxford, 3-5 November 2011. The Ditchley Foundation is a privately-funded charity established in 1958 to promote trans-Atlantic understanding. Since then Ditchley conferences have expanded to include the concerns and participation of nations from across the globe. They are designed as a resource for senior policy-makers and professional analysts from the fields of politics, the civil service, education, civil society, business, industry and the media to study specific policy questions in a broad context, to hear the views of other experts in the field and to draw operational or analytical conclusions. Between 35 and 45 participants attend conferences by invitation. The proceedings are informal and off-the-record, with emphasis placed on frank debate and oral dialogue rather than on set presentations. Acted as rapporteur for Working Group and made it a presentation of main conclusions on energy sector and economic development.
Briefing at the Eastern Research Group, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate, FCO, London. September 2011. Paper: "Caspian region: Companies. Governments. Policies".
Paper at the Panel "The Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis: Elaborations for Europe and Central Asia" at the Western Economic Association International Conference, San Diego, 30 June, 2011. Paper: "National Fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan- from stress test to global future".
Keynote speaker at the seminar co-hosted by CEAS and British-Kazakh Society, House of Lords, London, 15 June 2011.
Special event dissemination of the main results of the work of the CEAS on INSPIRE Project. Keynote paper: "Local Content in Kazakhstan - perceptions of households".
Conference Europeanisation of Energy Corridors: Nabucco Pipeline Project, Southern and Northern Corridor, CNRS/Sciences PO - CERI (International Institute for Strategic Studies), Paris, 19-20 May 2011. Paper: "Nabucco project and Caspian Interests".
Special briefing at the Kaztransgas (Gas National company), Astana, Kazakhstan, 27 April 2011.
Briefing: "Local Content in Kazakhstan: Company's strategy". The specific recommendations were taken by the company which was in the process of reviewing their local content strategy.
Special briefing at the National Agency on Local Content Development, Astana, Kazakhstan, 26 April 2011.
Briefing: "Local Content in Kazakhstan. What the households think about it?" The specific recommendations were taken by the Agency into consideration during designing the national strategy on local content development in Kazakhstan.
Public Lecture at the Institute of Political Solutions, Almaty, Kazakhstan. 22 April 2011.
Lecture: "Local Content in Kazakhstan. New way of Development?" This paper received a wider coverage in Kazakhstani press and was re-printed by many journals and newspapers.
Presentation together with Dr Christian Nygaard at the seminar series Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford, March 16 2011. Paper: "Local Content Policy in Kazakhstan- result of the Household Survey".
Conference "Resource challenges of the Caspian oil boom. Domestic elites and policy making in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan", participation is sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation Research project "The Energy Sector and the Political Stability of Regimes in the Caspian Area", Bremen, 16-17 December 2010. Paper: "Spending Petro-Dollars", as well as principle discussant.
Round Table: "Emerging Market Economies in Central Asia". Sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation. Gottingen. Germany. 13 November 2010. Invited to address the round table as an expert on the economic development of the region.
Presentation at the seminar series Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford, November 3 2010. Paper: "National Fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan- from stress test to global future".
6th Global Local Content Summit. London, September 27-30 2010. The Global Local Content Summit is the largest and most prestigious annual gathering of senior local content decision makers from across the globe. Paper: "The Role Of Local Content In The Economic Development Of Resource-Rich Countries".
ICCEES VIII World Congress 25- 31 July, 2010, Stockholm, Sweden. CEAS hosted a panel. The paper: "Resource nationalism, credit growth and state owned investment vehicles in Russia and Kazakhstan" was presented together with A. Nygaard.
5th Annual Kazakhstan Growth Forum. London. 16 June 2010. Paper: "Local Content in the Caspian Region". The Kazakhstan Growth Forum is Europe's leading event on investing doing business in Kazakhstan - attracting 300 top-level participants even amidst the economic challenges of 2009. This event is also a key meeting place for high-level decision-makers from the Kazakhstani government and the corporate sector, foreign strategic investors, international financiers and leading experts and academics on the region.
"Oil and Gas Conference" organised by the Petrosam programme board of the Research Council of Norway (similar to ESRC), 9 June 2010, Oslo, Norway. Special invitation by the Council to assess work on the project "Resource nationalism in the Caspian region-with a special focus on Kazakhstan".
RussCasp Strategic Forum. Oslo. 11 March 2010. Paper: "Kazakhstan: understanding the government's approach to IOCs".
Public Lecture for the Kazakh students, studied in the UK at the UCL, London, 12 November 2009. Lecture: "Local Content in Kazakhstan. New way of Development?"
Presentation at the seminar series Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford, 4 November 2009. Paper: "Local Content as a Factor in Oil and Gas Projects".
UN Second South-South High Level Meeting on Oil and Gas Management. Nairobi, Kenya. 12 October 2009. Paper: "Managing Expectations of Emerging Oil and Gas Producing Countries: Companies. Governments. Policies".
5th Global Local Content Summit. London, September 28-29, 2009. The Global Local Content Summit is the largest and most prestigious annual gathering of senior local content decision makers from across the globe. Paper: "Local Content Policy in Kazakhstan".
Invited speaker by the government of Kazakhstan at IV Eurasian Energy Forum (Astana, Kazakhstan) "Local Content: Companies. Governments. Policies". 24-25 September 2009. Paper: "Local Content Policy in Kazakhstan - An Overview".
Speaker at the CICM Conference "20 Years of Transition in Central and Eastern Europe: Money, Banking and Financial Markets" (London), "Oil, Credit Growth and State Owned Financial Intermediaries in Russia and Kazakhstan", 17-18 September 2009. Paper: "Resource Nationalism and Credit Growth in FSU Countries".
House of Lords. 13 November 2008. Address to the House of Lords group on energy. "Economics of the Caspian Oil and Gas Wealth".
ASSA/AEA. New Orleans, USA, 4-7 January 2008. Won competition of panels. Panel "Energy Issues and Challenges in Emerging Economies". Paper: "Determinants of Corruption and the Growth-Corruption Links in Energy-Rich Economies".
Specialisms
- Transitioning and Emerging Economies
- Hydrocarbon Development
- Energy Economics
- Corporate Governance in Resource Rich Emerging Economies
Location
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