Dr. Gaukhar Konuspayeva

Professor of food biotechnology at Al-Farabi University, Almaty (Kazakhstan), FAO consultant, Gaukhar Konuspayeva is a graduate of the University of Montpellier (Ph.D. in Food Sciences and HDR). She worked for FAO in Saudi Arabia at the Camel Research Center in Al-jouf (2010-2012), and then the Kharj Center (2012-2015), where she developed extensive work on the composition and processing of camel milk. She then carried out extensive research on this subject in Kazakhstan, Morocco and Mauritania with FAO, Tunisia for the private sector and participated in numerous international conferences, organizing the 4th international ISOCARD (International Society of Camelid Research and Development) conference at Almaty in 2015. She is also a partner of the EU project CAMELMILK (PRIMA program). Since March 2021, she has been a visiting researcher at CIRAD on the topic of the development of the camel milk sector in the frame of the MAKit program.