Tuimebayev Zhanseit Kanseituly

(08.07.1958, Republic of Kazakhstan)

Chairman of the Board - Rector of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Education:

- S.M. Kirov Kazakh State University (1980)

Specialty "Philologist"

- Moscow State Social University (2000)

Specialty "Lawyer"

- Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 1st Class (11.2005)

Academic titles, degrees, activities:

- Candidate of Philological Sciences (1987);

- Doctor of Philology (2008);

- Professor of Linguistics;

- Honorary Doctor of the Nide University of the Republic of Turkey (2014)

Work experience:

- Assistant, Senior lecturer, Associate Professor of S.M. Kirov Kazakh State University (1980-1993);

- First Secretary, Head of the Middle and Middle East and Africa Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1993-1994);

- Second, First Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Republic of Turkey (1994-1997);

- Consultant of the Protocol Service of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1997-1999);

- Consul General of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Republic of Turkey (Istanbul) (1999);

- Chief of Protocol of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1999-2004);

- Advisor to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Chief of Protocol of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (03.2004-02.2006);

- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation (01.02.2006-01.2007);

- Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (01.2007-09.2010);

- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Turkey (10.2010-10.2016);

- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Albania concurrently (03.2011-10.2016);

- Akim of South Kazakhstan region (07.10.2016-06.2018);

- Akim of Turkestan region (20.06.2018-26.02.2019);

- Deputy Chairman of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, Head of the Secretariat of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (02.2019-02.2021);

- Rector of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) (since 02.2021)

Other positions:

- Chairman of the Board of the Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS Countries (25.06.2007-2010);

- Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Kazakh-Turkish University named after Yassawi (2007-1010);

- Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC "NNTH "Parasat" (11.2008-11.2010);

- Member of the National Commission for the Implementation of the program of modernization of Public Consciousness under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (since 17.04.2017)

State and international awards, prizes, honorary titles:

- Orders: Kurmet (2003), Parasat (2011), "Barys" of the III degree (2022)

- Medals "10 years of Astana" (2008), "20th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan" (2011), "20th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan" (2015)

- Awards: Turkish Association of Businessmen and Industrialists for "special contribution to the development of cooperation between Kazakhstan and Turkey" (2011), international development platform Turkish Tourism (TÜTAP) for "special achievements in International relations" (2011)