Born on 18 May 1981. He graduated from Marshalltown College (USA), specializing in Political Science and from Eurasian National University, majoring in International Law. He has a master degree in geopolitics from University La Sapienza (Italy) as well as a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Academy “Kokshe”. He received further training and development in in the area of public policy and public administration, human resources management and technology management in the USA, Singapore, Belgium, Japan and the Netherlands. In 2000-2001 he worked as an assistant to Congressman Mark Smith, the Government of Iowa (USA). In 2002-2004 he was involved in implementation of Youth Policies in Kazakhstan. In 2006-2009 he worked on the investment projects of JSC “Sustainable Development Fund ” Kazyna”. He was a head of the Department of Human Resources Policies of the Presidential Administration, the Vice-Rector of the Presidential Academy of Public Administration, Director of the Department, and then the Executive Director for personnel policy of JSC “National Welfare Fund “Samruk Kazyna “. In 2009 he was appointed Director of the National School of Public Policy under the President of Republic of Kazakhstan. He is fluent in Kazakh, Russian, English, Turkish, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Latin. He is married with two children.