CONTACT

For more information about the Central Eurasia Leadership Academy, please contact:

CELA Director (2002-2009)
Adam Smith Albion
Mr. Adam Smith Albion is a former CELA Director. He has also served as Senior Research Associate at the EastWest Institute (EWI), based in New York, and Director of Critical Areas Research at World Monitors Inc. (WMI), a watchdog and consulting organization focusing on corporate social responsibility issues in Central Eurasia and China. In the past, he has been a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs (Crane-Rogers Foundation), writing about the Turkic world after the fall of Communism. He worked as a journalist in Turkey/ Black Sea region for two years. For four years he was Central Asia analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He was educated at Harvard and Oxford Universities. His most recent publications have been for Jane’s Sentinel and Freedom House.

CELA Faculty Director
William Starnes
Mr. William Starnes has served as CELA Faculty Director since 2006. As a member and past Managing Director of the Society of International Business Fellows, one of the founders of CELA, he was instrumental in the inception of CELA and has participated in all its Academies. He developed his leadership skills in international real estate with Trammell Crow International where he was Co-Managing Partner. Previously, he taught economics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with past positions at Williams College, Rice University and the University of Houston."

CELA Network Senior Manager
Muzaffar Atamirzaev
Mr. Muzaffar Atamirzaev is a core CELA staff member since 2008 and CELA Network Senior Manager since 2011. For the previous seven years he worked in the microfinance field of Uzbekistan, most recently as microfinance development adviser for the UNDP/Support to Reform Process in Uzbekistan project. Earlier, Mr. Atamirzaev worked to various Microfinance Programs of International NGOs, and as a member of the Committee of coordinating humanitarian assistance within the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Mr. Atamirzaev is a native of Uzbekistan. He obtained his MA in Economics from Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics in Moscow and BA in Economics & Management from the Tashkent Transport Engineering Institute, coupled with research at the World Bank Institute in Washington DC. In 2005 he studied credit to micro and small enterprises at Arizona State University on a Cochran Fellowship. He is an alumnus of CELA 6.

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