Vrsovice, Prague, Czech Republic, May 30, 2008

(photo by Ivan S. Abrams)

I'm a lawyer by profession and now work as a Country Director for a non-profit NGO, the American Bar Association/Rule of Law Initiative. I manage our programs to help train lawyers, judges and prosecutors in 3 Central Asia nations--Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. I'm from Tucson, Arizona, in the USA, but now live in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and travel frequently for work. I've been fortunate to have been in Prague 5 times in the last couple of years, and it's one of my favorite places. I'm married and have 2 grown sons, both in graduate school, one for law and one for medicine.

Ivan S. Abrams