Cholpon Orozobekova | |
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| Born | (1975-11-17)November 17, 1975 (age 50) |
| Occupation | Director of the Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations |
| Spouse | Jengishbek Edigeev |
Cholpon Orozobekova (Kyrgyz:Чолпон Орозобекова; born November 17, 1975, inAt-Bashy District,Naryn Region, formerKyrgyz SSR) is a Geneva-basedconflict analyst and expert on security issues, such ascounterterrorism,climate change andrenewable energy. She is a Founder and Director of the Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations, a peacebuilding organization based inGeneva. She speaks inKyrgyz,Russian,English, andFrench.
Cholpon Orozobekova was born on November 17, 1975, inAt-Bashy district of theNaryn region ofKyrgyzstan in a teacher's family.
She studied in then called Pogranichnik secondary school in the village of Pogranichnik (nowadays the village of Kazybek, named after Kazybek Mambetimin-uulu (1901-1936), the dissident poet murdered by the Stalinist regime for his verses againstBolsheviks.)[1]
She graduated at the Faculty of Journalism at theKyrgyz State University named afterIshenaly Arabayev.
She holds three Master's degrees from Geneva-based public universities:
MA in International Relations/Political Science from theGeneva Graduate Institute, obtained in 2017.
MAS in International and European Security from theUniversity of Geneva, obtained in 2014.
Executive Master in International Negotiations and Policy-Making from theGeneva Graduate Institute, obtained in 2013.
Currently, Cholpon Orozobekova works as a director of the Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations.[2] She co-founded the institute in 2017.
The Bulan Institute was officially registered as a non-governmental organization inGeneva,Switzerland, on 18 May 2018.
The institute works on Sustainable Development Goals[3] with the main focus on Central Asia. The Climate Change and Renewable Energy programme[4] has been implementing projects to mitigate climate change in Central Asia and to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy resources.
Since 2024, the Bulan Institute has been implementing the Solar Energy Skills Development Project in Kyrgyzstan jointly with theKyrgyz Technical University named afterI. Razzakov.[5]
Cholpon Orozobekova is married and has three daughters. Her husband is a Kyrgyz journalist Jengishbek Edigeev (inKyrgyz - Жеңишбек Эдигеев), who graduated the Faculty of Journalism at the Kyrgyz National University named after Jusup Balasagyn inBishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He published a Kyrgyz-French dictionary (2015).