Hafiz Boboyorov, PhD, is a fellow of the Phillip Schwartz Initiative at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, where he currently lives and works. Through 1998-2016, he worked in different positions at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, including as senior researcher of the Institute of Philosophical and Political Sciences, director of the Research Centre for Contemporary Processes and Future Planning, and chief editor of the Science and Society journal.