Minister of Foreign Affairs

Born on 30 June 1968. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Economics of the Kirov Kazakh State University. Undertook academic training at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Language Institute of Yonsei University (Republic of Korea).

10.1990 – 10.1992 – Research Intern, Department of History of Philosophy, Kirov Kazakh State University.

11.1992 – 10.1993 – Assistant, Department of Chinese Philology, Kirov Kazakh State University.

17.11.1993 – 07.01.1996 – Attaché, Department of Asian Countries, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

07.01.1996 – 19.04.1999 – Third Secretary, Second Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Republic of Korea.

19.04.1999 – 02.10.1999 – First Secretary, Asia Division, Department of Bilateral Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

02.10.1999 – 19.04.2000 – Acting Head of the Asia Division, Department of Bilateral Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

19.04.2000 – 12.06.2000 – Head of the South and Southeast Asia Division, Directorate for Asia, the Middle East and Africa, Department of Bilateral Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

12.06.2000 – 01.09.2000 – Adviser to the State Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan (under an employment contract).

01.09.2000 – 01.02.2001 – Adviser to the State Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

01.04.2001 – 02.07.2003 – Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the State of Israel.

02.07.2003 – 05.08.2004 – Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

05.08.2004 – 09.07.2009 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Malaysia.

10.03.2005 – 09.07.2009 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and the Republic of the Philippines, concurrently.

09.07.2009 – 04.03.2016 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Swiss Confederation; concurrently, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, Switzerland.

20.10.2009 – 04.03.2016 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Vatican City State, concurrently.

24.04.2015 – 04.03.2016 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, concurrently.

04.03.2016 – 18.09.2019 – First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

18.09.2019 – 18.01.2021 – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

18.01.2021 – 03.04.2023 – Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

14.08.2023 – 02.09.2026 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Austria; Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the international organizations in Vienna.

02.09.2026 – Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan by Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.