Farhad Mukhtarov

Farhad Mukhtarov specializes in Public Policy and Water Governance. Farhad’s research interests include integrated water resources management, policy transfer, adaptive management and governance.  He is especially interested in developing and testing methodologies for comparative studies of water governance. Currently, Dr. Mukhtarov is working at Environmental Policy Analysis Group of Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His work at IVM includes the EU funded project ‘LiveDiverse’ (www.livediverse.eu), which explores the relationship between biodiversity and livelihoods in developing countries from an angle of vulnerability. In addition, Farhad is working on a number of publications resulting from his Ph.D. Thesis “The Hegemony of Integrated Water Resources Management: a study of Policy Translation in England, Turkey and Kazakhstan”. In the past, Dr. Mukhtarov served on an expert panel on Integrated River Basin Management for the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme in Paris; a researcher for the United Nations Development Programme in Almaty, Kazakhstan; a researcher at the Southeastern Anatolia Project Administration in Ankara, Turkey; a researcher at Oxford Centre for the Environment in Oxford; and a teaching assistant and research fellow at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.