Dr. Tamo Chattopadhay is the Founding Director of the Institute of Education at American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan; where he launched Central Asia’s first US graduate program in education in 2018 and served as the Dean of Social Sciences Division from 2019 to 2021. He was a Visiting Professor at Bard College in New York, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education. A Fulbright Group Project awardee, Tamo previously was an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Notre Dame (USA), and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, New York. Tamo consults widely with international development organizations (UNICEF, UNESCO, and World Bank) in policy research and programming in global education across Central Asia, South-East Asia, and Latin America (primarily Brazil) in areas of social organization of schooling, public-private partnerships in education, and policies and practices in teacher professional development. Tamo holds a Doctorate in International Educational Development from Teachers College – Columbia University, an MBA in Finance from Baruch College, City University of New York, and an integrated Bachelor and Master in Theoretical Physics from People’s Friendship University of Russia. Prior to academia, he was a Vice President at the global financial institution J P Morgan, in New York City. A naturalized American citizen, Tamo is originally from India, and speaks Bengali, Hindi, English, Russian and (some) Brazilian Portuguese.