Dissertation Council at Higher School of Economics and Business of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University for the first time modified its policy on remote PhD thesis defences. Doctoral student Bekturganova M.S. with thesis title: "Priorities and economic mechanisms of transitions to low-carbon development of Kazakhstan’s oil and gas industry" (specialty "6D050600 - Economics») .

Dissertation Council at Higher School of Economics and Business of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University is working with foreign scientists: Doctor of Economics, prof. Turginbaeva A.N. (Scientific Secretary of DC) and PhD Zhidebekkyzy A. Also, a foreign scientist from Russia, Doctor of Economics, PhD, professor of Novosibirsk State University and Altai State University Dubin I.N.

This successful defense of a doctoral dissertation is the second online defence experience at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.