Date of election to the BoD of KMG: the resolution of the General Meeting of Shareholders of KMG, Minutes №5/2023 dated 06.11.2023.

Citizenship: Kazakhstan. 

Date of birth: 02.02.1956.

Education: 

·         Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1973-1978);

·         Candidate of Legal Sciences (1985).

Class rank:

·         Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Employment record:

·         Research Fellow, Adjunct, Senior Inspector of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR in the group to ensure the work of the representative of the Soviet Union to the UN Committee on Crime Control and Criminal Justice (1978-1987);

·         Desk Officer of the Foreign Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (1987-1989);

·         Head of the Kazakhstan Department of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (1989-1992);

·         Head of the Treaty and Legal Department, Deputy Head, Head of the Treaty and Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1992-1995);

·         Temporary Charge d'affaires of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Republic of Korea (1995- 1996);

·         Ambassador at Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (03.1996-04.1996);

·         Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1996-1998);

·         Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of India (1998-2004);

·         Заместитель Министра иностранных дел Республики Казахстан (2004-2006);

·         Chairman of the Customs Control Committee, the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2006-2007);

·         Commissioner on Human Rights in the Republic of Kazakhstan (2007-2019).

Elected office, parliamentary office:

·         Deputy of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 12.08.2019, Chairman of the Committee on International Relations, Defense and Security (26.01.2023-26.09.2023), Deputy Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan (02.09.2019-24.01.2023);

·         Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE PA Special Representative on Sustainable Development Goals (2021-2023);

·         Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2020-2022).

State awards, honorary titles:

·         Honors: “Kurmet” and “Parassat”;

·         Medals: 22 medals, including “Yeren Enbegi Ushin” (“For Worthy Labor”).