Date of election to the Board of Directors: December 22, 2025, first elected on December 9, 2019 (until September 23, 2022)
Citizenship: The Republic of Kazakhstan.
Date of birth: December 2, 1972.
Education:
Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science, KazNU named after Fl-Farabi with a degree in Political Science (1996);
Postgraduate program at the KazNU named after Al-Farabi, Department of Political Sciences (1999)
Doctoral studies at KazNU named after Fl-Farabi, Department of Political Sciences (2007).
Academic degree:
Doctor of Political Sciences (2007), PhD in Political Sciences (1999);
Professional development and internships:
1997 - Scientific internship at the European Center for Security Studies. George C. Marshall (Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Germany;
2001-2002 - Diderot fellowship, internship at the Higher School of Social Sciences ((École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)), Paris, France;
2003 - Internship at the Eurasian Center for Strategic Studies (Avrasya Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi, (ASAM)), Ankara, Turkey;
2005 - Foreign researcher at the University of Foreign Languages (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS)), Seoul, Republic of Korea;
2006 - Visiting professor at the Higher School of Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)), Paris, France;
2014 - Visiting researcher at the Center for Strategy, Analysis and Planning (Center d’analyse, de prévision et de stratégie (CAPS)), Program for Inviting Outstanding Personalities of the Future (PIPA) of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France.
2023-2024 scientific internship under the 500 Scientists program, George Washington University, Elliott School of International Relations. Washington, USA.
Work experience:
1996-1997 – Lecturer at the D.A. Kunaev Humanitarian Institute.
1997-1998 – Researcher at the Kazakhstan Development Institute
1999-2005 – Deputy Director, Head of the Department of Complex Problems of the Institute of Oriental Studies named after R.Suleimenov of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Associate Professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University since 2004.
2006-2009 – First Deputy Director of the KISI under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Professor at the Kazakh National University named after Fl-Farabi since 2008.
2009 – Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Policy Analysis and Forecasting of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2009-2014 – Chief Researcher at the KISI under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
2014-2024 – Deputy Director of the KISI under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
Professor of the Faculty of International Relations of the ENU named after L.Gumilyov since September 2018.
2019-2022 – Independent Director of the Board of Directors of the Foreign Policy Research Institute JSC (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan).
Since September 2024, he has been Chief Researcher at the KISI under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Social activities:
Member of the Expert Council at the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
Member of the Foreign Policy Council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
Member of the Expert Council on Foreign Policy at the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
National and international awards:
Anniversary medal «10 years of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization» (2011)
Medal «Yeren yenbegi ushin» (2015)
Anniversary medal «20 years of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan» (2015)
Breastplate «Gylymdy damytuga sirgen yenbegi ushin» (2016);
Commendation and Certificate of Honor from the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2015, 2022)
Anniversary medal «20 years of Astana» (2018)
Anniversary medal «25th anniversary of the CIS under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan» (2018)
Order of «Kurmet» (2021)
Main scientific publications:
Author of 9 books, over 250 scientific articles, and sections in Kazakhstani and foreign scientific and analytical publications on political science, foreign policy and international relations, regional cooperation, and security in Central Asia.
