"Contributors" [2011] ELECD 166; in Blitz, K. Brad; Lynch, Maureen (eds), "Statelessness and Citizenship" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Statelessness and Citizenship

Editor(s): Blitz, K. Brad; Lynch, Maureen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849800679

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 6

Extract:

Contributors
Rustem Ablyatifov is a Political Analyst with the Crimean News Agency in
Simferopol, Crimea and a Lecturer in Law at the Crimean Law Institute,
Odessa State University. He received a BA in Law and an MA in Public
Administration from the National Academy of Public Administration
and has held several advisory appointments with human rights bodies
and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) dealing with the natu-
ralization of the returning Crimean Tatars. From 2002­06, he served as a
governmental official in the State Committee of Ukraine for Nationalities
and Migration as both Chief of the International Relations division and
Deputy Chief of the Department for Nationalities. From 2006­07, he was
Senior Legal Adviser to the Office of the Permanent Representative of the
President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. A former
Fellow of the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars and Visiting Fellow at Carleton University, Ottawa, he has
led training programmes and workshops on public administration reform
and minority rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and has
worked with the Open Society Institute-Budapest and Konrad Adenauer
Foundation to develop curricula and deliver training for local government
officials. He is the author of several papers on minority rights, national
self-government in Ukraine, the adaptation and integration of Crimean
Tatars, as well as developments in multiculturalism and Ukraine's pros-
pects of European integration.
Brad K. Blitz received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and cur-
rently is Director of Graduate Research ...