Lazzat Kussainova
President, International Center for Scientific Collaborations
Dr. Lazzat Kusainova is the founder of a non-profit organization and President of the International Center for Scientific Collaborations, which carries out Kazakhstan has extensive cooperation with the country's scientific communities, foreign embassies and international scientific organizations such as ECOSF, IAP, CAST, INSTP, INIC and others. In July 2019, Dr. Lazzat Kusainova was elected a member of the International Scientific Council of ECOSF.
Dr. Lazzat Kusainova worked for 20 years in the civil service, of which, from 2010 to 2017, she was deputy chairman of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In this regard, he has a lot of experience in the field of legal regulation of scientific activity and organization of scientific work.
Ms.Kusainova holds a PhD in Law and a Master of Public Policy (Duke University, USA). Since 2010, she has been a patent attorney of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and since 2019 a member of the National Chamber of Legal Advisers. Its professional scientific interests are environmental, agricultural and land law, as well as intellectual property and human rights. She is also the author of several monographs, tutorials, and scientific publications in the field of various fields of law.
She has extensive legislative drafting skills. In particular, it was the developer of such laws as the Law on Public Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Law on Peasants (Farms), the Law on Science, and has an author 's certificate for the draft Concept of the Law on Commercialization of the Results of Scientific and (Or) Scientific and Technical Activities. At present, they are all valid laws in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Lazzat Kusainova is actively engaged in popularization of science of Kazakhstan, but consistently advocates the dissemination of scientific education and scientific knowledge in the pedagogical, academic and scientific environment, as well as promotes the principles of zero tolerance to manifestations of corruption in science (scientific fraud).
Dr. Lazzat instills a culture of scientific knowledge to children, and pays great attention to promoting children 's scientific projects for international scientific competitions. Scientific projects of Kazakh children supported by ICSC took the first (2018) and second places (2019) at the international scientific competition CASTIC in China. With the legal and consulting assistance of Dr. Lazzat, these children received patents for their own scientific developments.