Seminar on Local Content Development in Kazakhstan to take place June 15
ALMATY. June 3. KAZINFORM The government of Kazakhstan is increasingly concerned with ensuring that existing natural resource endowments generate wider economic benefits and the policy of local content development is one of its priorities.
The seminar will be addressed by H.E. A. Issekeshev Deputy Prime-Mister, Minster of the Industry and New Technologies and Z. Kakishev, Chairman, National Agency on Kazakhstan Content (TBC), H.E. K. Abusseitov, Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the UK, the press service of the British-Kazakh Society reports.
The keynote speaker of the seminar Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova who is head of the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies at Reading University will present the results of the study which was done by the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies and Kainar University on the main aspects of the local content policy in Kazakhstan. Other speakers include Mr Nigel Gould-Davies, VP Policy and Corporate Affairs, BG Kazakhstan, Mr Julian Lee, The Centre for Global Energy Studies. We expect participation of the leading businessmen, academics and policy formers at the seminar. The main findings and conclusions of the discussion we will be passed to the Kazakh National State Agency on Local Content Development.