Savva Brown is a Programme Officer at UCA’s Graduate School of Development. He manages and coordinates Executive Education programmes across a range of subject areas and contributes to the development of new graduate programmes at UCA. His work includes programme design and research, stakeholder and partner engagement, course development and delivery, market and institutional analysis, and coordination with academic and professional experts.
He also coordinates implementation of the Certificate Programme in Urban Resilience (CPUR) under the Naryn Urban Resilience Programme (NURP), working directly with government and municipal officials to support applied training in areas such as urban resilience, risk assessment, infrastructure planning, and public-sector decision-making. He has also delivered training to Naryn City government staff in applied GIS skills and assisted in city urban forestry data collection. Finally, he has contributed to research on societal attitudes towards decarbonisation in Kazakhstan and helped facilitate engagement between public- and private-sector stakeholders around the study’s findings.
His professional trajectory is fisheries science and policy.