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Title: Social Sectors Specialist Organization: Graduate: Home
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| What do you enjoy about your job? What aspects of your job are the most exciting or interesting? | ||
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enjoy working in a multicultural environment at the
Asian Development Bank. The most interesting and
exciting aspects are working on projects which have
direct and positive impact on people in different
countries in Asia. |
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| Why did you choose to pursue an MPA/MPP degree? | ||
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the time when I decided to pursue a master's degree
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst I had
five years of a practical experience working on
development issues in Central Asia. I felt that it
was a time to go back to a graduate school and gain
skills and knowledge that would further equip me in
my work on development. |
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| How did you select your graduate school? | ||
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would strongly recommend to consider the Center of
Public Policy and Administration at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMass). It is a
relatively newly set up program, but has a variety
of opportunities for learning from different
faculties at UMass. Amherst area is also so-called
"a five-school area" with four liberal art
colleges and UMass. It is a really nice town in the
western Massachusetts with a beautiful autumn
season! |
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| How do you feel your MPA/MPP is helping you to make a difference? | ||
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of the skills and knowledge in the public policy
analysis, statistics, public finance, which I gained
during my MPA are of tremendous help in my current
work. I am proud of my last year work at the Asian
Developent Bank (ADB), where I acted as a project
task officer, and which resulted in a grant financed
by ADB on addressing several strategic education
reforms in the Kyrgyz Republic, (an amount of 15.5
million). I hope there will be more opportunities to
apply my MPA skills. |
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| How would you characterize your personality? | ||
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Team worker *Compassionate * Creative * Persistent *
Organized * Committed * Flexible * Curious * Detail
oriented * People person * Diplomatic * Driven |
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| Contact Raikhan Sabirova with questions regarding her graduate experience: | ||
| Email Raikhan | ||