Yermek Kosherbayev named new Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister

The Head of State signed today a decree appointing Yermek Kosherbayev as Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Akorda reports.

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By decree of the Head of State, Yermek Kosherbayev has been appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, after being released from his previous post, reads a statement from Akorda.

Born in Almaty in 1965, Kosherbayev is a graduate of the Kirov Kazakh State University, Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.

In 2014, Kosherbayev took up a position as Vice-Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In 2016, he served as the Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, after that moved on to a new position as the Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.

In 2019/20, Kosherbayev acted as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In 2020, he was appointed as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Russia.

In June 2023, he took up the post of the governor of East Kazakhstan region.

Earlier it was reported that Tamara Duissenova had been appointed as an assistant to the President of Kazakhstan.