Marina Sivasheva – Belarus & Central Asia
- M.A. in Russian Language and Literature, Kyrgyz National University, Kyrgyzstan
- Scholarship award for training course at The Media School, Indiana University, USA
- Expert on Belarus, Central Asia and International Relations
- 20 years experience working as a journalist in Central Asia and Belarus
- Extensive contacts to senior politicians and high-level policy makers in Belarus and across Central Asia and the Former Soviet Union
- Executive editor of Эхо событий (Echo of Events), Kyrgyzstan
- Head, Politics Section, Central Asian Post
- Deputy Chief Editor, Res Publica, Kyrgyzstan’s leading broadsheet
- Chief Editor, Absolut-Express
- Soros Foundation Kyrgyzstan
- Expert on the Commission Grant of the Media Support programme
- Contractor for, CIMERA, a Swiss non-governmental project for the development of mass-media:
- Edited articles for the CIMERA bulletin Media Insight Central Asia
- Trained journalists
- Head, Printed Media on Mass Communication Courses, Department of Journalism, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- Internships at newspapers in the United States and Poland