Iroda Amirova

I hold a PhD in Agriculture with a focus on Agricultural Economics from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. I have conducted her doctoral studies at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) in Halle, Germany. I obtained my MSc. in Agricultural and Food Economics from Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn and now a post-doctoral fellow (research affiliate) at the Center for Policy Research and Outreach at Westminster University in Tashkent. I am the principal investigator of the project "Institutions, change mechanisms and impacts in natural resource management of Central Asia (INRESCA)," funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. I previously worked with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan.

Post-doctoral research fellow 

• Principal investigator of a project entitled "Institutions, change mechanisms and impacts in natural resource management of Central Asia (INRESCA)". Fellowship given and sponsored by VolkswagenStiftung and regional host of the project is Center for Policy Research & Outreach of Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. (CPRO/WIUT). JLU Giessen and Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) are co-hosting/partner institutes in Germany.
• May 2020 - Present

Visiting research fellowship 

• Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
• Since Dec 2021

Research consultant 

• Consulting group member which assessed the impact of COVID-19 on agriculture, food and rural areas in Central Asia and Caucasus countries funded by FAO
• Nov 2020-Apr 2021

PhD scholarship

• In the framework of the project "AGRICHANGE – Institutional change in land and labour relations of Central Asia's irrigated agriculture" at Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) Halle (Saale), Germany.
• Mar 2015- Jul 2019

Research consultant

• International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Central Asian office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
• Oct 2014 – Mar 2015

Research intern 

• Resource Recovery, Water Quality and Health Research Theme, IWMI, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• Feb 2014 – Sep 2014

Intern 

• Central Asia and the Caucasus Association of Agricultural Research Institutions, under ICARDA Tashkent, Uzbekistan
• Jun 2011 – Jan 2012

2015-2019: Ph.D. in Agriculture (major in Agricultural Economics), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany.

2012-2014: M.Sc. in Agricultural and Food Economics, Institute for food and resource economics (ILR), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany.

2007-2011: B.Sc. in Economics, Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan