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Professional Career

Since 2019	Visiting Scholar at the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment Arizona State University
Since 2019	Research Fellow Earth System Governance Project
Since 2018	Communications Officer for IASC Europe The International Association for the Study of the Commons
Since 2016	Senior Research Fellow Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policy Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2012-2016	Research Fellow Chair of Landscape Economics Technical University of Berlin
2011-2012	Programme Assistant Governance Team United Nations Development Programme Uzbekistan
2009-2011	Project Assistant Governance Team United Nations Development Programme Uzbekistan
2009	Community Mobilizer/Communications Officer Disaster Risk Reduction Project World Vision International – Uzbekistan
2007-2008	Project Coordinator Environmental Education NGO Environment for Healthy Life, funded by British Council
2006-2007	Local Coordinator Partnership for Community Engagement and Sustainable Development NGO Environment for Healthy Life, funded by European Commission
2006-2007	Program Development Assistant Capacity Building of the Youth Parliament NGO Environment for Healthy Life, UNICEF Uzbekistan

Educational Background

Ph.D.	Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Landscape Economics Thesis: “Making benefit sharing a success: multi-level institutional analysis of benefit sharing in managing shared water resources, a case from Central Asia” Degree awarded: Dr. rer. oec. (2016) (With Honor)
M.Sc. (dual)	The University of Manchester and Central European University Joint Master Program in Environmental Sciences and Policy Degree awarded: Dual M.Sc. Degree in Environmental Sciences and Policy (2009)
Master	Tashkent Institute of Architecture and Construction Department of Economics Degree awarded: Master’s Degree in Economics (With Highest Honor) (2008)
Bachelor	Tashkent Institute of Architecture and Construction Department of Economics Degree awarded: Bachelor’s Degree in Economics (With Highest Honor) (2006)

Teaching

Since 2017	Lecturer Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policy Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Teaching Master level course "Methods of Institutional Analysis and Policy Evaluation: Understanding and Application of Social Research Methods"(AGE.05949.02)
Since 2017	Lecturer Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policy Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Teaching Master level course "Natural Resources, Agricultural and Environmental Policy III: Global Environmental Policy and Sustainability Governance" (AGE.06309.01)
Since 2015	Guest Lecturer Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policy Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Teaching in Master level course "Natural Resources, Agricultural and Environmental Policy II: Water Governance", topics covered - Transboundary Water Competition/Collaboration, Governance of Multipurpose Use: Drinking Water and Sanitation Services in Developing World
2016	Guest Lecturer Summer University organized by Evangelisches Studienwerk Course "Reallocating water: Departure for sustainable development" (original: B2/ Wasser neu verteilen: Aufbruch in eine nachhaltige Entwicklung), using a simulation game to understand water diplomacy
2015 and 2016	Guest Lecturer Chair of Landscape Economics Technische Universität Berlin Taught in Master level course "International Environmental Policy", topics covered - Problems of Shared Water Management: Economics, Political, Legal Perspectives, and Simulation of Negotiation: Complex Case with Complex Decisions
2007-2008	Teaching Assistant Department of Economics Tashkent Institute of Architecture and Construction Taught an undergraduate course on Macroeconomics

Awards 

2019	@ward for the best multimedia-supported and innovative teaching in the course "Methods for Institutional Analysis and Policy Evaluation: Understanding and Application of Social Research Methods", annual award competition organized by @LLZ at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2016	“The Takasao Memorial Prize” awarded for the contribution to the water diplomacy research at the 7th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research, 5-9 June 2016, Kyoto, Japan
2012-2016	Full DAAD Fellowship for Doctoral Research in Economics at Technical University of Berlin
2011	Team Awards “Commitment to Gender”, “Innovation of the Year”, “Best Programme Team”, United Nations Development Programme Uzbekistan
2010	“Best Project Assistant”, United Nations Development Programme Uzbekistan

Dr. Ilkhom Soliev is an institutional economist with research focus on governance of common pool resources. His work in research, education, and development has focused on the study of sustainable and equitable natural resource governance and effective institutions. His has studied and developed empirical and theoretical foundations of benefit sharing as a governance approach to managing shared water resources in Central Asia, documenting and analyzing over a century-long data. As a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, he focuses on examining transformative power of benefit sharing using new methods across multiple natural resource domains of water, land, biodiversity and climate, as well as in various cultural and political contexts spanning from Central Asia and the wider post-Soviet region to developed countries such as Germany and the United States.