Board of Directors

Education:

• Kazakh State University named after S.M. Kirov, "Applied Mathematics" specialty (1974-1979);
• Higher School of Law "Adilet", "Jurisprudence" specialty (1999).

Academic titles, degrees, activities:

• Doctor of technical sciences, professor, academician of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan and International Engineering Academy.

Work experience:

• Secretary of the Komsomol Committee, assistant, senior engineer, senior lecturer, department head, Vice-rector, secretary of Party Committee of Kazakh State University named after S.M. Kirov (1979-1991)
• President of National Engineering Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1991-2001)
• Vice Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, head of Internal Policy Department of RK Presidential administration, head of Socio-cultural development department of RK Government (2001-2005)
• Chairman of Republican political party of labor until its joining the RPP “Otan” (1997–2002)
• Acting Chairman of RPP “Otan”, head of Republican public headquarters of the candidate for RK President N.A. Nazarbayev (2005)
• First Deputy Chairman of “Nur Otan” party (2007)
• Rector of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2008-2010)
• Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (22.09.2010, reassigned from 04.2011–09.2013)
• President of National Engineering Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2014-2017)
• Deputy of Parliament Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan (since 07.2017), member of Committee on socio-cultural development and science (since 09.2017)

Other positions:

• Chairman of Public Council for monitoring the implementation of Five social initiatives of RK President (since 05.2018);
• Member of Senators Council at Parliament Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan (since 09/20/2019).

Elected positions, deputations:

• Candidate for deputy of RK Supreme Council of 13th convocation (1994)
• Candidate for deputy of Parliament Mazhilis of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the II convocation (1999)
• Candidate for deputy of RK Parliament Mazhilis of the IV convocation on the party list of People's Democratic Party "Nur Otan" (12.07.2007)
• Deputy of Parliament Mazhilis of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the IV convocation (27.08.2007-28.04.2008)
• Head of the parliamentary faction of PDP "Nur Otan" (01.09.2007-11.02.2008)
• Deputy Chairman of RK Parliament Majilis (02.09.2007-28.04.2008)

Education:

• Kazakh Polytechnic Institute named after V.I. Lenin (1970);
• Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, postgraduate degree (1978).

Academic titles, degrees, activities:

• Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan (NAS), Academician of the International Engineering Academy (MEA) and the Academy of Higher School of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Work experience:

• Senior engineer of the Technical Cybernetics Department (1970–1974);
• Lecturer, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee at the V.I. Lenin Kazakh Polytechnic Institute (1978–1984);
• Curator of Alma-Ata universities in the City Party Committee (1984–1986);
• Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at the Alma-Ata Power Engineering Institute (04.1986–1997);
• First Director of the Higher Education Department (02.1997–10.1997);
• Director of the Administrative Department at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (10.1997–01.2001);
• Deputy Head of the Social and Cultural Development Department of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan (01.2001–07.2001);
• Rector of the Kazakh National Technical University named after K.I. Satpayev (07.2001–05.2008);
• Honorary Rector of the Kazakh National Technical University named after K.I. Satpayev (05.2008–02.2018);
• Director of the Institute of Seismology (since February 24, 2018).

Other positions:

• Chairman of the Public Council for Monitoring the Implementation of the Five Social Initiatives of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (since 05.2018);
• Member of the “Union of National Unity of Kazakhstan” movement;
• Member of the Political Council of the “National Unity of Kazakhstan” party;
• Deputy Chairman of the Earth Sciences Department;
• Member of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan;
• Honored Worker of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Honorary Citizen of the South Kazakhstan Region and the City of Almaty;
• Vice-President of the International Foundation “For Sustainable Peace” under UNESCO;
• Chairman of the Accreditation Commission of CAZSEE (Kazakhstan Association of Engineering Education);
• Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of the Higher School.

Awards:

• Honored Worker of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2004);
• Honorary Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2000);
• President of the Republic of Kazakhstan’s “Golden Leopard” Badge (2007);
• “Kurmet” Order, two medals of the USSR;
• Medals of the Republic of Kazakhstan: “Astana” (1999), “10 Years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (2001), and “25 Years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan”;
• Medal of the Cambridge International Biographical Center “Outstanding Teacher of 2005”;
• Gold Medal named after A. Baitursynov (2007);
• “Peter the Great” Order of the National Committee of Public Awards of the Russian Federation (2007).

Education:

• • 1994, Kazakh State Academy of Management
• • 2004, Kazakh University of Humanities and Law

Work experience:

• He started his career in 1994 at “Pobeda” cotton farm in the Shymkent region
• From 1995 to 2010, he worked in various positions in State Property and Privatization Committee at Finance Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• From 2014 to 2020, he worked in various positions at JSC “Information and Accounting Center”, Astana
• From 2020 to 2022 – head of the Department for the sale of republican property and post-privatization control of the State Property Committee at RK MF
• From 2022 to 2024 – head of Shymkent’s State Property and Privatization Department of the State Property and Privatization Committee at RK MF
• 2001 – was awarded "Kazakhstan tauelsizdigine 10 zhyl" jubilee medal
• 2016 – was awarded "Kazakhstan tauelsizdigine 25 zhyl" jubilee medal
• 2020 – was awarded "Excellence in financial services" breast badge
• 2021 – was awarded "100 years of Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan" breast badge
• 2021 – was awarded "30 years since the establishment of Committee for state property and privatization of Finance Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan" jubilee medal
• 2023 – was awarded "Kurmet" medal of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Education:

• Pavlodar State University, "Mechanical Engineer” specialty (1996)
• Pavlodar University, specialty "Jurisprudence” specialty (1999)/

Scientific titles, degrees, activities:

• Doctor of Economics

Work experience:

• Chairman of Trade Union Committee of Students at Pavlodar State University (1994-1999)
• Director of Culture Academy at Pavlodar University (1999)
• Intern researcher, lecturer of “Social Sciences” department at Pavlodar State University named after S. Toraigyrov (1999-2001)
• Director of Public Associations Institute at S. Toraigyrov Pavlodar State University (2001-2002)
• Head of Educational work and social issues department at S. Toraigyrov Pavlodar State University (2003)
• Director for Educational work and social issues department at S. Toraigyrov Pavlodar State University (2002-2003)
• Director of Administrative Department at S. Toraigyrov Pavlodar State University (2003)
• Vice-Rector for Educational Work and Social Affairs at S. Toraigyrov Pavlodar State University (2004-2008)
• Deputy of Pavlodar city Maslikhat of III-IV convocations, Chairman of Standing Committee on social policy of Pavlodar City Maslikhat (2003-2009)
• Vice-Rector for Strategic Planning, Social and Educational Work at S. Toraigyrov Pavlodar State University (2008-2010)
• First Vice-rector of S. Toraigyrov Pavlodar State University (2010-2012)
• Acting deputy director of Higher and postgraduate education department at RK Education Ministry (2011-2012)
• Deputy of Parliament Mazhilis of the Republic of Kazakhstan of V convocation, member of Committee on socio-cultural development at Parliament Mazhilis of the Republic of Kazakhstan, head of the working group on elaborating the draft Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On amendments and additions to certain legislative acts on state youth policy", initiator and author of "On volunteering" law (2012-2016)
• Deputy Akim of Pavlodar region (2016-2019)
• Professor of “Economics” department at S. Toraigyrov Pavlodar State University (2018)
• Chairman of Board - Rector of NPJSC "Toraigyrov University" (2019-04.2021)
• Chairman of Board - Rector of NPJSC “KazNRTU named after K.I. Satpayev” (since 05.2021)

Education:

• Kazakh National Agrarian University (2006) Bachelor's degree
• Singapore Polytechnic University (2007) Second education
• University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), Master's degree
• “AlmaU” International Business Academy, PhD (2017)

Academic titles, degrees, activities:

• PhD at EI “Almaty Management University” since 2017

Work experience:

• Lecturer at Kazakh Agrarian University named after S. Seifullin, Astana (2006)
• Expert at Agriculture Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2007-2008)
• Chief specialist of Department for investment attraction and innovation of JSC “Social and entrepreneurial corporation “Tobol” (2009-2010)
• Director of Investor Service Center of North Kazakhstan region, Petropavlovsk (2014-2015)
• Director of Investor Service Center at JSC “NC APC Almaty” (2015-2017)
• Director of Regional representative office of Kazakh Invest JSC in Almaty (2017-2018)
• Advisor to Director of Almaty Transport Holding LLP on issues of interaction with government agencies, digitalization of databases, expansion of using “Onay” payment card (2018-2019)
• Senior Partner Hoffmann-La Roche for work with government agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2019-2023)
• Assistant to Chairman of Board of Eurasian Economic Commission (Moscow, from 2023 to 2025)
• Director for external communications and relations with governmental agencies, AstraZeneca Kazakhstan (2025–present)

Gratitudes:

• Gratitude from Minister of RK Agriculture (2007, 2008);
• Gratitude from Chairman of JSC "Social and Entrepreneurial Corporation "Tobol" for implementing "Creation of service and procurement centers in Kostanay region” project (2010)

Education:

• Turan University (2005) Bachelor of Law
• Kazakh Academy of Transport and Communications named after M. Tanyshpayev (2011). Bachelor's degree in organization of transportation, traffic and operation of transport
• Kazakh University of Railway Transport (2011). Master's Degree in Economics and Business

Work experience:

• Director of CHK Future Engineering Laboratory Ltd (2024 - till present time)
• Development director and founder of “Innovative Transportation Mission” LLP (2018-2020)
• Director for development of "Metrology service group" LLP (2017-2018)
• Director for production of JSC "National Company "Kazakhstan Engineering" at Ministry of RK Defense and Aerospace Industry (2017)
• Deputy Director General of RSE "Kazakhstan Institute of Metrology" at Ministry of Investment and Development (Astana city) (2013-2017)
• Deputy Director of “Zenit-Mercury” LLP (2011-2013)
• Vice President for economics and finance of JSC “KazTemirTrans” (2009 - 2011)
• President of “TransCargo Int.” LLP (2007 - 2009)
• Vice-President of “Petroleum Invest Corp” LLP (2005 - 2007)
• Technical Director of “AsiaPromSbyt” LLP (2002-2008)
• Director of “Imperial Invest Corp” LLP (2002-2009)
• Head of the legal department at JSC “Trans-Asian Commercial Bank” (1998-2001)
• Vice President for economics and business at PC “Merey” (1997-1998)
• Lawyer, Union of industrialists and entrepreneurs of RK (1996-1997)
• Lawyer, “Edelweiss” LLP (1994-1996)