Dr. Gulbakhyt Sultanova is a leading researcher in the Research and Data Analysis Department at the Center for Pedagogical Measurements, Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools, Kazakhstan. She completed her PhD in Education Economics at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and further pursued her postdoctoral studies at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. Dr. Sultanova has published in top-tier international journals on intellectual capital, knowledge management, and the assessment of cognitive and non-cognitive skills. She currently serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee for the Special Interest Group on Holistic Assessment at the Association for Educational Assessment - Europe.
Nurym Shora is a member of the Research and Data Analysis Department at the Center for Pedagogical Measurements, Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools. He holds a master’s degree in business analytics from Warwick Business School, UK. He embarked on an academic journey during his master's dissertation, which involved his participation in the Data Science for Social Good Fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute, UK. This experience further fueled his research interests in the field of educational data mining, with a specific focus on secondary education.
