Professional Experience

Academic Experience

American University of Central Asia, Bishkek,  Kyrgyzstan

Head, Division of  Economics and  Environmental  Studies          August,  2017 - present

Chair, Department of  Economics                            September,  2014 - present

Associate Professor, Department of  Economics          September,  2012 - present

Chair, Faculty Senate of AUCA   September,  2017 - present

OSCE Academy, Bishkek,  Kyrgyzstan

Teaching Research Fellow

Department of Economics, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah

Visiting Assistant Professor     August,  2011 - August  2012

Department of Economics, Old  Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

Visiting Assistant Professor     July,  2010 - July 2011

Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Research Assistant       Fall 2009-Summer  2010
Triangle  Census Research  Data Center

Instructor   Summer  2009

Teaching Assistant:       Fall 2008-Spring  2009

Research Assistant       Fall 2005-Spring  2007

Research  Assistant for Professor  Charles Becker

Non-academic Experience

Publications and Working Papers

• ”Transitions from dirty  to clean energy  in low-income countries:  insights  from Kyrgyzstan”,  2018, with Rahat  Sabyrbekov (accepted, Central  Asian Survey)
• ”Gender  in Society  Perception  Study:  Women’s Economic Empowerment  Component”, 2017 UN-Women
• ”Gender  Differences in Work and Wages in the Kyrgyz  Republic: an Economic Explanation”, with Kathryn Anderson
• ”Desk  Review  of Research  on Gender  and  Environment” UNDP-UNEP Poverty and Environmental Initiative. Bishkek:  UNDP
• ”Profile  of Kyrgyz  Labor Migrants”, working paper,  TSPC center,  AUCA
• ”Migration, Remittances and Growth”  Fall 2011, (Revise and Resubmit,  Macroeconomic Dynamics)
• ”Migration  and Remittances under Financial  Market Imperfections”, working paper, Fall 2011
• ”Private Transfers  in Kyrgyzstan’s Post  Transition  Environment:  Results  from a New Household Panel  Dataset”, working paper  with Charles Becker  (under review)
• ”Urban and Rural Living Standard Differentials in the Kyrgyz  Republic:  Why Does Any- one Remain  in the Country  Side”,  working paper  with Kathryn Anderson and Charles Becker
• ”Demographic  Change in Transition  in Central  Asia:  A Case Study  of Marriage  in the Kyrgyz  Republic” working  paper  with  Kathryn Anderson,  Charles  Becker  and  Linda Carter
• ”Public Investment in Developing countries:  Crowding in, Crowding out or Both”,  working paper  with David Grigorian
• Gerstenberger, W., Ukueva,  N., Burzhubaev, T. ”Determinants of Final Demand Deflators”  Reforma  Nr.2(6), 2000, Bishkek,  Kyrgyz  Republic  pp.  56-61
• Ukueva  N. ”The  External Debt Module”  Reforma  Nr.1(5),  2000, Bishkek,  Kyrgyz  Republic pp.  59-62
• Mukashev,  K., Ukueva,  N. ”R&D sector in the Kyrgyz  Republic” Reforma  Nr.2(6), 2000, Bishkek,  Kyrgyz  Republic  pp.  48-49
• Gerstenberger, W., and Ukueva,  N. ”Current Account  Balance  and Debt Risks”  Tacis ”Long Term Economic Perspectives  Scenarios  of Economic and Social Change”  Conference Proceedings,  June  2000, Bishkek,  Kyrgyz  Republic  pp.  111-118
• Batyrkanov, Ukueva,  N. ”Monetary Policy  of the National  Bank and Its Impact  on the Economy of the Kyrgyz  Republic” Vestnik  KGUSTA 2001
• ”Remittances, Labor  Supply  and  Unemployment:  Case of Tajikistan”, working  paper 2014 with Gulnora Suleymanova
• ”Impact of International Migration  and  Remittances on Elderly  Parents Left Behind” work in progress  2014

Conference Presentations

• CESS Annual Conference, University of Washington,  USA, Fall 2017
• CESS Annual Conference, Princeton  University, USA, Fall 2016
• Annual Conference of Southern  Economic Association  (83rd Annual Meetings),  Tampa, Florida,  USA, November  2013
• Conference on Micro-Level Analysis  of Well-Being in Central Asia, Association  for Com- parative Economic Studies  (ACES), Berlin, Germany,  May 10-11, 2012.
• Conference  on  Dynamics,  Economic  Growth  and  International Trade  (DEGIT-XVI), Saint-Petersburg, Russia,  September  2011.
• Annual Conference of the Association  for Public  Economic Theory (PET11),  Blooming- ton, Indiana,  June,  2011.
• American  Economic Association  - ASSA annual  meetings,  Denver,  Colorado,  January, 2011.
• Western Economic Association  annual  meetings,  Portland, Oregon.  Co-authored paper.

Honors and Awards

• USAID Building  the Future  Research  Grant
• CERGE-EI Career Integration  Fellowships,  2015-2018
• Akyl Tirek Award for Young Scientists,  Bishkek,  2014
• HESP AFP Returning  Scholar Fellowship,  August,  2012-May 2015
• Teaching  and Research  Fellowship,  OSCE Academy,  Bishkek Kyrgyzstan
• Tuition Scholarship,  Economics Department, Duke University, 2006-2010
• Summer Research  Fellowship for Graduate  Students,  Graduate  School, Duke University, Summer 2008
• International Monetary  Fund:  Japan-IMF  Scholarship  for Advanced  Studies,  2004-2006
• US Department  of State:  Edmund Muskie Graduate  Fellowship,  2002-2004
• Diploma with highest honors (B.A., Economics),  KGUCTA, Kyrgyz  Republic,  1999
• All American Scholar Collegiate Award and National Dean’s List Award for outstanding work and academic  achievements, USA, 1998
• US Department  of State:  Future  Leaders Exchange  Fellowship,  1997-1998
• Graduated with Gold Medal from Physics  and Mathematics High School-Lyceum N61
• International Mathematical Olympiad,  Hong Kong, Honors Certificate, Summer 1994