An Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership, Policy and Governance at the University of Calgary with a Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership from the University of Minnesota. Extensive research experience in higher education policy, international faculty mobility, gender and STEM, and academic capacity building. Has secured over $500,000 in research grants as Principal Investigator from SSHRC, the Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan, and Nazarbayev University. Recognized as the Most Productive Social Science Researcher in Kazakhstan by Clarivate Analytics (2020). Published extensively in leading journals and supervised numerous graduate students.