American University of Central Asia - AUCA

GULNURA TORALIEVA

Gulnura Toralieva has a BA degree with honors in International Journalism fromKyrgyz-Russian Slavonic University and MA degree with merit in Science Journalism from City University London.

She started her career as a reporter working for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Bishkek office) where she also worked as a media trainer and program coordinator.

She worked as IPP (Institute for Public Policy, Bishkek) Program Director from May 2006 to August 2008. In this post Ms. Toralieva has been responsible for management of all IPP projects on good governance, rule of law and media she moderated public events, delivered workshops on journalism and edited a number of training materials for journalists. Initially she started as a Journalist- Analyst; subsequently she worked as a Training Program Coordinator/Analyst, Media Program Coordinator/Editor-in- Chief of newly established Bishkek Press Club’s web-site.

Ms Toralieva worked as a Central Asian Media Program Coordinator for BBC World Trust Service in Bishkek from August 2008 to September 2009.

Currently, Ms. Toralieva is a Chair of Journalism and Mass Communications Department of AmericanUniversityofCentralAsia, where she also teaches number of journalism courses. Ms Toralieva has extensive experience in facilitating trainings, news-reporting, writing and editing of handbooks for journalists and video film production. She also works as a consultant in the number of local and international organizations.