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Keynote speaker: Ambassador William Courtney

The countries of Central Asia are navigating a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape while striving to define their own development paths and regional cooperation. Their growing desire for strategic and economic autonomy and sustainable growth increasingly faces a complex web of global, regional, and domestic pressures. This workshop brings together scholars, practitioners, and policy experts to explore the multifaceted challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for Central Asia, including balancing foreign economic relations with autonomy, the development of human capital in a digital age, the balance between economic development and environmental sustainability, and the evolving role of democratic actors and international organizations in promoting good governance. Keynote Speaker: Amb. William Courtney, U.S. Ambassador (retired), is an adjunct senior fellow at RAND and a professor of policy analysis in the RAND School of Public Policy. He co-chairs the international advisory council of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission and is chair-emeritus of the board of trustees of Eurasia Foundation. As a foreign service officer, he served abroad in Brasilia, Moscow, Geneva, Almaty, and Tbilisi. He was Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Georgia, and the U.S.-Soviet Commission to implement the Threshold Test Ban Treaty. He belongs to the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has a BA from West Virginia University and a PhD from Brown University in economics.