Graham Pluck is professor of psychology at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He has bachelor's degrees in Psychology (University of Birmingham, UK, 1996), Spanish and Latin American Studies (University of Sheffield, UK, 2015), and a Ph.D. in Medicine (University College London, UK, 2001). Among other research interests, he has published on psychopathology and neuropsychology in relation to socioeconomic deprivation from a global perspective. He has held academic positions and conducted research in several leading UK universities and Kazakhstan, Japan, Thailand, and Ecuador.