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Baktybek Abdrisaev

Faculty Member

Baktybek Abdrisaev

Biography

Dr. Baktybek Abdrisaev has been working as a Lecturer in the Department of History and Political Science at Utah Valley University (UVU), USA, since 2005. During 1997-2005, he served as an Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to the United States and Canada. He teaches courses on International Relations, World Diplomacy, Post-Soviet Politics, Comparative Politics of Central Asia, Sustainable Development Goals, and Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD), a few to mention. Since 2011, he has involved UVU students in SMD advocacy through an inclusive co-curricular student-engaged learning model. The model and UVU were featured in the United Nations Secretary General's report on SMD in 2007, 2009, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2022. His assignment on teaching classes by using the New York Times was included in the Teaching Toolkit of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. He has written on issues of Central Asia and SMD in media outlets like OpenDemocracy, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Foreign Policy. He testified in 2010 before the US House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the Committee of Oversight and Government Reform about upheaval in Kyrgyzstan and its possible implications on U.S. policies. He served as an expert in the International Affairs Department of the Presidency of the Kyrgyz Republic in 1992, which he chaired later in 1993. Dr. Abdrisaev was also a Member of the Kyrgyz Parliament from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Abdrisaev received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the Academy of Sciences of Belarus in 1990.

Education

PhD, Institute of Electronics, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1991

Major: Applied Computer Sciences and Optical Information Processing

BS, Bishkek Polytechnic Institute, 1980

Major: Computer Sciences

Teaching

POLS 1000

American Heritage AS, Fall 2024

POLS 2100

Introduction to International Relations, Fall 2024

POLS 3510

Post Soviet Politics WE, Fall 2024

POLS 3630

Sustainable Mountain Development, Fall 2024

POLS 1000

American Heritage AS, Summer 2024

POLS 1000

American Heritage AS, Spring 2024

POLS 2100

Introduction to International Relations SS, Spring 2024

POLS 3640

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Spring 2024

POLS 3210

World Diplomacy, Spring 2024

Presentations

Abdrisaev, Baktybek (Coordinator/Organizer), Kasymalieva , Aida (Co-Chair), Thompson, Alitha (Moderator), Mazhitova , Sharapat (Co-Presenter), Balmaña , Elisenda Vives (Co-Presenter), Almoslechner, Jochen Hans-Joachim (Co-Presenter), Ahmad , Jamil (Co-Presenter), Romeo, Rosalaura (Co-Presenter), Lago, Baldomero (Panelist), Butler , Rusty (Panelist), DeSart, Jay (Panelist), Juarez-Smith , Tristin (Panelist), Amatova , Gulnura (Panelist), Erkinbek kyzy , Nazik (Panelist), Abibilaev , Baiyel (Panelist), Panfilenko , Tatiana (Panelist), Li , Qian (Panelist), Kumar , Priyanka Prem (Panelist), Jada , Jokudu Winnie (Panelist), Array, Array , 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women , "Advocating for mountain women and girls' education globally through student engaged learning", Permanent Mission of the Kyrgyz Republic to the United Nations, the United Nations Mountain Partnership, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and Utah-China Friendship Improvement Sharing Hands Development and Cooperation , United Nations Headquarters. (March 24, 2023)
Abdrisaev, Baktybek , Butler, Rusty , Thompson, Alitha , 79th Annual Conference, "Contributions of non-traditional students to the inclusive co-curricular student engaged learning model for the advocacy of sustainable development of mountain communities ", Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. (April 7, 2022)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Abdrisaev, Baktybek , Akmatalieva, Cholpon , (2023) "Higher Education Initiative For Sustainability In Mountain Areas And The Fourth Industrial Revolution" (Issue: 2, vol. 1). New York, New York : The International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association. https://www.hetl.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/HETL-Frontiers-Vol-1-No-2-Final-Version.pdf
Jaynes, Tyler Lance , Abdrisaev, Baktybek , Glenn, Linda MacDonald , (2023) "Socially Good AI Contributions for the Implementation of Sustainable Development in Mountain Communities Through an Inclusive Student-Engaged Learning Model" (Issue: Philosophical Studies Series, vol. 152). Switzerland: Springer, Cham . https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-21147-8_15
Abdrisaev, Baktybek , Butler, Rusty , Jiang , Wendy L, (2022) "Empowering Mountain Women Through An Inclusive Student-Engaged Learning Model" (Issue: 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, vol. None). New York: Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. https://www.uvu.edu/utahimf/blog/docs/2301cswwritten/e_cn6_2023_ngo_45_en.pdf
Abdrisaev, Baktybek , (2022) "Utah Valley University Student Engaged Learning Model to Advocate for Sustainable Mountain Development " (vol. None). New York : United Nations Secretariat. https://www.uvu.edu/utahimf/blog/docs/2209unsg_smd/n2243626.pdf
Abdrisaev, Baktybek , Butler, R.E. Rusty , Dzhukev, Yanko , (2020) "Sustainable Mountain Development Advocacy Through Student Engaged Learning by Observing International Mountain Day_ The Case of Utah Valley University" (Issue: 4, vol. 40). Bern: Mountain Research and Development. https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00070.1
Abdrisaev, Baktybek , Horton, Scott , Semyonov, Alexey , (2010) "Kyrgyzstan's referendum brings a flicker of hope." . Open Democracy. www.opendemocracy.co.uk/od-russia/kyrgyzstan%E2%80%99s-referendum-brings-flicker-of-hope

Awards

1st International Course on Research and Innovative Management

Distinguished State Scholarship Recipient

Kyrgyz Republic

Graduate Diploma of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

High Honors

Bishkek Polytechnic Institute

The Kyrgyz Republic State Youth Award for Outstanding Achievements in Science and Research

Paul Harris Fellow

Rotary International - May 9, 2023

In appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world.