I am a CPPA master's student at UMASS. In the past I was employed with the Soros Foundation, where I managed the East East: Partnership Beyond Borders program that aims at international experience and best practices exchange between NGOs of Kazakhstan and other countries in Central Asia and NGOs of the Eastern Europe to develop sustainable networks of expertise in various areas. Before the SFK my activities were mainly directed to facilitation of the drafting and provision of continuous negotiation of the contracts with DalaMining potential contractors (ThyssenKrupp, ACA Howe, Dumul b.v., WSP group, SGS Mineral Services, Outotec, etc.) hired to develop Feasibility Study and TPD for Kok...