Cholpon Orozobekova
Cholpon Orozobekova is a Geneva-based conflict analyst and expert on security issues, such as counterterrorism, climate change and renewable energy. She is a Founder and Director of the Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations, a peacebuilding organization based in Geneva. She speaks in Kyrgyz, Russian, English, and French.
Biography
Cholpon Orozobekova was born on November 17, 1975, in At-Bashy district of the Naryn region of Kyrgyzstan in a teacher's family.She studied in then called Pogranichnik secondary school in the village of Pogranichnik
She graduated at the Faculty of Journalism at the Kyrgyz State University named after Ishenaly Arabayev.
She holds three Master's degrees from Geneva-based public universities:
MA in International Relations/Political Science from the Geneva Graduate Institute, obtained in 2017.
MAS in International and European Security from the University of Geneva, obtained in 2014.
Executive Master in International Negotiations and Policy-Making from the Geneva Graduate Institute, obtained in 2013.
Her current role
Currently, Cholpon Orozobekova works as a director of the Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations. She co-founded the institute in 2017.The Bulan Institute was officially registered as a non-governmental organization in Geneva, Switzerland, on 18 May 2018.
The institute works on Sustainable Development Goals with the main focus on Central Asia. The Climate Change and Renewable Energy programme 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 the Kyrgyz Technical University named after I. Razzakov.