Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2012

Advanced Economic Cooperationin Sectors and IndustriesWater and Energy Problemsin the Basins of TransboundaryRivers in Central Asia andProspects for the Developmentof Hydropower Resources12Vladimir YasinskiyAlexander MironenkovTulegen SarsembekovVladimir Yasinskiy – Head of Strategy and Research Department,Member of the Board at the Eurasian Development Bank. Hewas trained as economist at the Economic Faculty of MoscowState University and at the Institute for Economy of the RussianAcademy of Sciences (post-graduate studies). His professionalrecord includes teaching at the People’s Friendship Universityin Moscow and multiple assignments in Nepal, China and Indiain the capacity of deputy Trade representative as well as deputyrepresentative of Gazprom in China. He works at the EurasianDevelopment Bank since 2006.E-mail: yasinskiy_va@eabr.orgAlexander Mironenkov – Ph.D., Head of Technical AssistanceUnit at the Eurasian Development Bank, author of a great numberof publications on water and energy system development andcreation of sustainable environment issues in Central Asian regionand Eurasian Economic Community.E-mail: mironenkov_ap@eabr.orgTulegen Sarsembekov – Deputy Head of Technical AssistanceDivision, EDB. He is an author of monographs and many otherpublications on different aspects of water and environmentalmanagement and development of energy.E-mail: stt@eabr.orgCentral Asia emerged as a geopolitical space encompassing Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan after the breakdown ofthe Soviet Union in 1991. The region occupies a vast internal drainage areain the closed Aral and Caspian basin. This explains the peculiar behaviour ofrivers, which are very sensitive to the impacts of economic activities and climateEurasian Development Bank217