Faradj Koliev is a Ph.D. Candidate from the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden. His dissertation concerns non-state actors impact on international organizations, with the special focus on NGOs behavior and independency. His dissertation addresses also how effective are international organizations' use of the "name-and-shaming" and the role of NGO's in their design. Faradj has studied economics, statistics, and worked as a research assistant at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University in a research project "Governing the Anthropocene - Environmental Policy and Outcomes in a Comparative Perspective (GRACE - EPOCOMP)". Before that he did most other things.