Djoomart K. OTORBAEV, male, born in August 1955, is a Kyrgyz national. He received his PhD from the Lebedev Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1981 and hisD.Scfrom the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1989. He is a former Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic and professor at Kyrgyz National University. His bookCentral Asia's Economic Rebirth in the Shadow of the New Great Gamewill be published by Routledge in the UK in 2023.