Dr Jacub Csabay is a Lecturer at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. He was a PhD student at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Central and East European Studies/Politics from the University of Glasgow, during which he completed an exchange programme at ADA University in Azerbaijan, as well as MPhil degree in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. He contributed to various research and policy projects of non-governmental and international organisations in Slovakia and Azerbaijan, including Slovak Governance Institute, Strategic Policy Institute (Slovakia) and UNFPA (Azerbaijan). His PhD will involve research in Slovakia and Azerbaijan as well as research visits to Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Czech Republic.