Prominent figures

Erik Asanbaev
Biography
Graduated from Kirov Kazakh State University in 1958 and from postgraduate courses of Moscow Institute of Finance in 1963. In 1975 he obtained a second diploma graduating from the USSR National Economy Management Institute.
Erik Asanbayev - Doctor of economic Sciences, a major statesman of Kazakhstan.
1958-1959 – Economist at Ministry of Finance of the Kazakh SSR
1959-1960 – Lecturer, Kazakh state University1964-1967 – Head of Department, Research Economic Institute of Planning and Norms under the Kazakh SSR State Planning Committee
1967-1973 – Head of Department, KazSSR State Planning Committee
1973-1975 – Kazakh SSR Deputy Minister of Finance
1975-1979 – Head of Department, Deputy Manager of Affairs, KazSSR Council of Ministers
1979-1983 – Head of Commerce, Planning and Financial Department; Head of Trade and Consumer services Department, Communist party of Kazakhstan
1983-1986 – Deputy Manager of Affairs, Council of Ministers
1986-1987 – Head of Science and Educational institutions Department, Central Committee of Kazakhstan Communist party
1987-1988 – Head of the economic Department, Kazakhstan Communist party
1988-1989 – Deputy Chairman, KazSSR Council of Ministers
1989-1990 – Secretary of the Central Committee, Communist Party of Kazakhstan
1990-1991 – Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Kazakh SSR, member of the CPSU Central Committee, USSR people's Deputy
1991-1996 – Vice-President of the Kazakh SSR
1996-2000 – Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Nurgali Ashim
Biography
Graduated from Moscow economic-statistical Institute on engineer-mathematician specialty in 1981. In 1983-1987 he was Postgraduate of the same Institute and defended his thesis.
1981-1984 - Junior researcher, Scientific-research Institute of planning processes automation and governance structures improving (research Institute CRA) under the Gosplan of Kazakh SSR1987-1990 - Head of Department, Institute of CRA under the Gosplan of Kazakh SSR
1990-1992 - Senior lecturer, Republican inter-sectoral Institute of advanced qualification under Kazakh SSR Council of Ministers
1992-1993 - Deputy Head of South Kazakhstan regional administration; Chairman of South-Kazakhstan territorial Committee on state property
1993-1996 - Deputy Head of South Kazakhstan regional administration
1996-1997 - Head of South Kazakhstan regional Department of the National Bank of Kazakhstan
1997-1998 - Vice-Minister of Kazakhstan ministry of Economy and Trade
1998-1999 - Deputy akim of Kostanai region
1999-2000 - Akim of Kostanai city
2000-2003 - President of KazTransGas JSC
2003-2004 - First Vice-Minister of Energy and Mineral resources of Kazakhstan
2004-2007 - Akim of the West Kazakhstan region
2007-2009 - Akim of South Kazakhstan region
2009-2012 - Minister of Environment protection of Kazakhstan.
2012-2017 - Deputy of Majilis of Parliament of Kazakhstan, Member of Committee on Ecology and Environmental management

Sailau Baizakov
Biography
Graduated from Kirov Kazakh State University with a degree in mathematics and computer science (1961) and from Alma-Ata Institute of National Economy by economist-planner specialty (1965) in absentia.
Doctor of Economic Sciences; The International Union of Economists Bureau Member; Academician of the International Informatization Academy; Academician of the International Academy of Management; Academician of the International Academy of Natural Sciences; Full Member of the International Public Academy of Environmental Safety and Environmental Management; Member of the Academic Union Oxford, UK; Honorary citizen of Zhangeldinskiy district, Kostanay region, The Public Council of Kazakhstan Ministry of Finance.
1961-1964 - Assistant lecturer, Kirov Kazakh State University
1964 - Senior economist, Head of laboratory, Head of Department and Deputy Head, Scientific-Research Economic Institute under Gosplan of Kazakh SSR1985 - First Deputy Chairman, Council for Productive Forces Study under the Sciences Academy of Kazakh SSR
1986-1991 - Head of Research Institute of Planning Processes Automation and Governance Structures Improving under the Gosplan of the Kazakh SSR
1991-1993 - Head of Research Institute of Scientific-Technical and Conjuncture-Commercial information under Kazakhstan Economic State Committee
1993 - Deputy Head of Ulagat Kazakh University
1994-1995 - Chief expert of the Department, Kazakh SSR Supreme Council
1995-1996 - Deputy Head of Kazakhstan Securities Commission
1996-1998 - Rector of the Institute for Retraining and Advanced Training of Civil Servants under the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1992-2002 - Advisor to the Minister, Director of the branch of the Karaganda Economic University in Astana
2003-2004 - Head of the Macroeconomic group of the Climate Change Coordination Center
2004-2008 - Vice President of Science, Institute of Economic Research
2008-2010 - Scientific Director of the Institute of Economic Research
2010 - Director of the Center of Institute of Economic Research JSC
Bayzakov S.B. is being the Supervisor of the Economic Research Institute JSC from 2010 to present.
He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers, including 12 monographs.

Kanat Berentaev
Biography
Graduated from Lobachevsky State University of Gorky on Mathematics (1970) and from Special faculty of Ordzhonikidze Moscow Institute of Management with a degree in Regional Planning and Forecasting (1977).
Kanat Berentayev - talented Kazakhstani scientist-economist, authoritative analyst, bright publicist, Candidate of economic sciences.
Since 1972 - Economist, Junior, Senior researcher, Head of Department, Deputy Head for Scientific work, Research Economic Institute of Planning and Norms under the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR.
2000-2001 - Leading researcher, Head of the Economic security Department of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2007-2008 - Senior Researcher, Institute of World Economy and Politics under the Fund of the First President of Kazakhstan. At the same time he was a co-founder of the Center for Analysis of Social Problems Public Fund, where he worked as Deputy Head from 2001 until the last days of his life.
From 2009 until the end of his life, he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Elena Bakhmutova
Biography
Graduated from Alma-Ata Institute of National Economy with a degree in Economics in 1983.
1983-1984 - Senior Engineer of KSMK-1, Trust Alma-Ata Selstroy number 7.1984-1989 - Economist, Research Economic Institute of Planning and Standards under the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR
1989-1991 - Senior economist, Ministry of Social Security of the Kazakh SSR
1991-1992 - Economist of the Elim-Ay film business association
1992-1998 - Leading and Chief economist, Head of Unit, Deputy Head of Social Services Department, Deputy Head of Budget Department, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1998-2001 - Head of Budget Department, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2001-2002 - Vice Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2002-2004 - Head of Financial Supervision Department, National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2004-2008 - Deputy Chairman, Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2008-2011 - Chairman of the Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2012-2016 - Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, NWF Samruk-Kazyna
2016 - Managing Director of NWF Samruk-Kazyna JSC.
2016-2018 - Chairman of the Board of Social Health Insurance Fund, Non-profit Joint Stock Company

Kozy-Korpesh Dzhanburchin
Biography
Graduated from Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics with Economics and Mathematics degree in 1982; Doctor of Economic Sciences.
1982-1983 - Engineer, NII ASPU under the State Planning Committee of the Kazakh SSR1983-1987 - Economist, Senior economist of the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR
1991-1992 - Chief Specialist of the State Committee for Economics of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1992-1993 - Consultant to the Supreme Economic Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1993-1994 - Deputy Head of the Economic Advisers Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1994-1995 - National Director of the European Communities Commission Bureau in Kazakhstan
1995-1997 - Chairman of the Committee on Economics of Almaty
1997-2003 - Deputy Akim of Almaty
2003-2007 - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Economics and Finance
2007-2009 - Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2009-2014 - Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Head of the Secretariat, Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2014-2017 - Chairman of the Accounts Committee for the Implementation of the Republican Budget Monitoring

Zhannat Ertlesova
Biography
ERTLESOVA ZHANNAT JURGALIYEVNAGraduated from Kirov Kazakh State University in 1978, majoring in mathematics; Doctor of Economics, Professor.
1978 – Researcher, Research Economic Institute of Planning and Norms under the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR
1992-1993 - Deputy Director for Research, Research Institute of Economics and Market Relations under the State Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Economics1993-1995 - Head of Department, Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, First Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1995-1999 - Head of the Center for Economic Reforms under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1997 - Vice Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan, First Vice Minister of Finance
1999-2000 - Vice-President of Kazakhtelecom OJSC
2000-2001 - Deputy Head of the Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan President
2001 - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2001-2003 - Head of Sana Consulting
2003-2004 - First Deputy Chairman of the RK Agency for Regulation of Natural Monopolies
2004-2005 - Managing Director for Corporate Development of JSC NC KazMunayGas
2005-2007 - Chairman of the Governing Council of the RK Taxpayers Association
Since 2007 - Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Kazyna Sustainable Development Fund JSC; Member of the Board of Directors, Kazyna Sustainable Development Fund JSC; Freelance advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2013-2015 - Deputy Chairman of the Board of the RK National Chamber of Entrepreneurs
2015 - Director of the Expert Kazakhstan Magazine
2016 - Independent Director, Member of the Board of Directors of Embamunaigas JSC
Since 2018 - Member of the Scientific Advisory Council under the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan for considering the application of the norms of administrative, investment and other branches of legislation.

Mazhit Esenbaev
Biography
ESENBAYEV MAZHIT TULEUBEKOVICHGraduated from Lenin Kazakh Polytechnic Institute with an engineering-economic degree in 1972; PhD in Economics, Associate Professor.
1972-1975 - Economist, Research Economic Institute of Planning and Standards under the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR
1975-1979 - Graduate student of the Council for the Production Forces Study under the USSR State Planning Commission1979-1981 - Junior researcher, Research Economic Institute of Planning and Standards under the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR
1981-1989 - Lecturer, Senior lecturer, Associate professor, Head of the department of Marxist-Leninist philosophy and political economy of Karaganda Pedagogical Institute
1989-1991 - Deputy Head of the Main Planning and Economic Department, Executive Committee of People's Deputies Council of Karaganda
1991 - Deputy Chairman, Executive Committee of Karaganda Regional People's Deputies Council; Chairman of Karaganda Economy Committee
1992-1994 - Deputy Head of Karaganda Regional Administration; Chairman of Karaganda Committee on Economics and Finance
1994-1996 - Head of the Main Tax Inspectorate of RK Ministry of Finance; First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1996-1997 - Chairman of RK State Tax Committee
1997 - Chairman of the Tax Committee, RK Ministry of Finance
1997-1999 - Akim of Karaganda region
1999-2002 - Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2002-2003 - Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2003-2004 - Assistant to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2004-2008 - Akim of Akmola region
2008-2012 - Chairman of RK Agency for Protection of Competition
2013-2014 - Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, General Representative of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC
2014 - Chairman of the Management Board of Almex Holding Group JSC

Beisenbai Izteleuov
Biography
Izteleuov Beisenbai Izteleuovich
The period of work at the Scientific Research Economic Institute for Planning and Standards under the State Planning Committee of the Kazakh SSR is unknown.
First Minister of Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1993-1994). Doctor of Economic Sciences. Author of a number of publications.

Zeynulla Kakimzhanov
Biography
Graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree of Cybernetics Economist (1985) and from graduate school of Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1991); PhD in Economics, Academician of the Eurasia IEA.
1976 - Carpenter-toolmaker, Semipalatinsk distance of civil works
1985-1987 - Economist, Junior researcher, Research Institute of Economics, Planning and Standards under the State Planning Committee of the Kazakh SSR1991 - Acting Senior Researcher, Research Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering under the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR
1991-1992 - Scientific consultant, Scientific and Consulting Center of the Fund for Cultural, Social, Scientific and Technical Development of the Kazakh SSR
1992-1993 - Vice-President of the ‘Kazakhstan’ Republican Construction Exchange, General Director of KINCO
1993-1994 - General Director of the Kazakhstan Interbank Currency Exchange, Managing director of the New Generation Investment Fund
1994-1997 - Acting Chairman, Chairman of the Management Board, Joint-Stock People's Savings Bank of Kazakhstan; President of the ‘United Bank of Kazakhstan’ State Bank
1997 - Assistant to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Economic Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1997-1998 - Assistant to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Deputy Chairman of the National Council for Sustainable Development
1998-1999 - Chairman of the National Investment Financial Joint-Stock Company NSBK-Group
1999-2002 - Minister of State Revenues of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2002-2003 - Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2003-2008 - Chairman of the Board of the Investment Fund of Kazakhstan JSC
Since 2008 - Head of Altay Asset Management

Serik Primbetov
Biography
PRIMBETOV SERIK DOSTANOVICHIn 1971 he graduated from the Alma-Ata Institute of National Economy with a degree in economics. In 1975 - graduate school at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. Doctor of Economics, Academician of IEA ‘Eurasia’, honorary member of the International Academy of Business and Administration Leaders;
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ambassador of the 2nd class, honored worker of diplomatic service of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
1966-1967 - Worker of the Chimkent plant of automatic presses and phosphoric salts
1971-1972 - Junior researcher, Research Economic Institute under the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR1975-1987 - Head of the sector, Head of Department, Research Economic Institute under the State Planning Committee of the Kazakh SSR
1987-1990 - Head of the lecture group of Alma-Ata regional party committee
1991 - General Director of ‘Cykes’ Center for Political Work and Business Cooperation
1991-1992 - First Deputy Chairman of Kazakh State Broadcasting Company
1992-1994 - Deputy Head of CIS Affairs Department of the Office of RK President and the Cabinet of Ministers
1997-1998 - Executive Committee Chairman, Interstate Council of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
1998-2002 - Executive Committee Deputy Chairman, Central Asian Economic Community
2002 - Advisor to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; National Coordinator of the Central Asian Cooperation Organization
2002-2008 - Deputy Secretary General of the Eurasian Economic Community
2008-2013 - Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Azerbaijan
2013-2015 - Advisor to the Chairman of the Board, Eurasian Development Bank
Since 2015 - Head of the Eurasian Development Bank Representative Office in Bishkek

Umirzak Shukeyev
Biography
SHUKEEV UMIRZAK ESTAEVICHGraduated from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics with a degree in economics and mathematics (1986) and from full-time graduate school of the same Institute (1988-1991); Doctor of Economic Sciences.
1986-1988 - Junior researcher, Research Institute of Industrial Automation Control under the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR1991-1992 - Leading Researcher, Research Institute of ASPU
1992-1993 - Consultant of the Supreme Economic Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1993 - Deputy Head of Finance and Labor Department of the Office of RK President and the Cabinet of Ministers
1993-1995 - Deputy Akim of South Kazakhstan Region
1995-1997 - Minister of Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
1997 - Minister of Economy and Trade, Deputy Prime Minister, Member of the Supreme Economic Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1997-1998 - Chairman of the Board of Turan-Alem Bank CJSC.
1998 - Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1998-2004 - Akim of Kostanay region
2004-2006 - Akim of Astana
2006-2009 - Akim of South Kazakhstan region
2007-2009 - Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2009-2011 - First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2011-2017 - Chairman of the Board of the Joint-Stock Company National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna
2017-2019 - Deputy Prime Minister; Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Since 2019 - Akim of Turkestan region

Hafiza Uteulina
Biography
Graduated from West Kazakhstan Agricultural Institute with a degree in economics (1982) and from graduate school of All-Russian Research Institute of Agriculture (1986); Candidate of Economic Sciences, Doctoral candidate at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
1982-1983 - Head of the Komsomol Committee of the ZKSHI1986-1989 - Junior Researcher, Research Institute under Gosplan of the Kazakh SSR
1989-1992 - Head of Research Institute of Research and Development
1992-1996 - Head of Department, Institute for Economic Research under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
1996-1998 - Head of Economic Department of the Mandatory Health Insurance Fund under RK Government
1998 - Head of Department of the West Kazakhstan Regional Department of Economics and Trade
1998-2003 - Chief Specialist, Head of Department, Head of Budget Financing, Vice Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2003-2004 - Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2004 - Head of Department of Social and Cultural Development of the Office of RK Prime Minister
2004-2007 - Vice-Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2005-2007 - Chairman of the Board of Directors, Financial Center JSC
2007 - Advisor to the Chairman of the Management Board of Kazyna FUR JSC
2008 - Managing Director of Kazyna FUR JSC, Member of the Board of Directors of the National Innovation Fund JSC
2008-2009 - Chairman of the Board of Urken JSC
2008-2009 - Chairman of the Board of Urken JSC
2011-2012 - General Director of El-Barys Public Foundation
2012-2014 - Head of the Office of RK Agency for Civil Service

Bulat Khusainov
Biography
Prominent economist, Doctor of Economics, Academician of the Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences.Graduated from the full-time postgraduate study of Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1982-1985), where he defended his thesis.
1980-1988 - worked at the Scientific Research Economic Institute of Planning and Standards (NIEIPiN) under the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR - the predecessor of the Institute for Economic Research.
1988-1991- Leading researcher, Productive Forces Study Council under the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR; Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR.
1991-1997 - Consultant to the Supreme Economic Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Adviser to Chairman of Supreme Council; First assistant to Vice-President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Adviser on economic issues of Kazakhstan Embassy in the USA; Adviser to RK Ministry of Foreign AffairsIn May 1997, he returned to scientific work at the Institute of Economics of RK Ministry of Education and Science, where until the end of 2017 he worked as the head of the Center for Globalization and Integration Studies.
Since December 2019 - Advisor on Science, Institute of Economic Research.

Yuri Shokamanov
Biography
In 1975 he graduated from the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Automation and Mechanization of Information Processing and Issuing; Doctor of Economic Sciences.
1976-1978 - Engineer, mathematician-programmer, Research Institute of ASPU under the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR1979 - Junior Researcher, Research Institute of Industrial Automation Control under the State Planning Committee of the Kazakh SSR
1980-1985 - Senior researcher, Research Institute of ASPU under the State Planning Committee of the Kazakh SSR
1985-1991 - Acting Head of the sector, Head of department, ASOPDR
1991-1992 - Deputy Director of Kazakh Research Institute of Scientific, Technical and Market Information
1992 - Consultant to Consolidated economic department of the Office of RK President and the Cabinet of Ministers
1992-1993 – Consultant to Economic policy department of the Office of RK President and the Cabinet of Ministers
1993-1994 - Head of the sector, Economic policy department of the Office of RK President and the Cabinet of Ministers
1994-1995 - First Deputy Chairman of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1995-1997 - Deputy Chairman of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1997 - Deputy Director of the National Statistical Agency of RK Ministry of Economy and Trade
1997-1998 - Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Statistics and Analysis
1998-1999 - First Deputy Chairman of RK National Statistical Agency
1999-2006 - First Deputy Chairman, RK Agency on Statistics
2006-2007 - Deputy Chairman, RK Agency on Statistics
2007-2011 - Executive Secretary, RK Agency on Statistics
2011-2012 - Director of the Department of National Accounts, RK Agency on Statistics
2012-2016 - Director of the Department of Statistics of Eurasian Economic Commission
2016 - Deputy Director, Department of Statistics of Eurasian Economic Commission