Rustam Muhamedov is a policy researcher, an expert in digital rights, and an analyst at Human Rights Consulting Group public foundation (Kazakhstan), focusing on promoting the right to privacy, freedom of expression, access to information, and media and Internet freedom in Turkmenistan and Central Asia. In this capacity, he has actively collaborated with a range of regional and international organizations, think tanks, media outlets, and NGOs, including the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freedom House, the Diplomat, CABAR.asia, the Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information (Global Data Barometer 2021), George Washington University, and the Institute for European Politics. He holds an MA in International Relations (Politics and Security – Central Asia) from the OSCE Academy in Bishkek (2019).