Aizada Nuriddenova is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at Suleyman Demirel University in Kazakhstan. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at George Washington University. She holds a PhD in International Relations, specializing in Chinese foreign policy, from the School of International and Public Affairs at Jilin University in China. Her research interests are centered on Chinese foreign policy and regionalism in Central Asia.