Murat Abutalipov is a graduate of the Turkish Scholarships program. He defended his doctoral (Ph.D.) dissertation on "Export Diversification and Economic Growth: Panel Analysis for Transition Economies" at Karadeniz Technical University. Prior to that, he received a master's degree from Akdeniz University with a degree in International Trade. From 2016 to 2017 he taught economics at the Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University.