Ömirsaq Schökeev

Ömirsaq Schökejew, 2013

Ömirsaq Estajuly Schökejew ( Kazakh Өмірзақ Естайұлы Шөкеев , Russian Умирзак Естаевич Шукеев Umirsak Jestajewitsch Schukejew * 12. March 1964 in Turkestan , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh politician. Since February 2019 he has been Äkim (governor) of the Turkistan Region .

Life

Ömirsaq Schökejew was born in 1964 in the southern Kazakh city of Turkestan . He graduated from the Institute of Economics and Statistics in Moscow in 1986 . After graduating, he worked as a research assistant at the Research Institute of the State Planning Committee of the Kazakh SSR.

From 1992 to 1993 he was advisor to the Supreme Economic Council under the Kazakh President before becoming Deputy Head of the Finance Department in the President's Office and Cabinet of Ministers of Kazakhstan in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he was deputy head of the administration of the Äkim (governor) of southern Kazakhstan . From November 1995 he was Minister of Economy of the Kazakh government and from March 1997 he held the position of Minister for Economy and Trade in Akeschan Kaschegeldin's cabinet . From July he was also Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. After Kaschegeldin resigned in October 1997, he also lost his post as minister and was then chairman of the board of the TuranAlem bank until April 1998 . From April to August 1998 he was deputy head of the presidential administration of Nursultan Nazarbayev . After that, Shokeyev was appointed Akim of the Qostanai region . On March 20, 2004, he was appointed mayor of the Kazakh capital, Astana . On September 20, 2006, he was appointed Äkim of South Kazakhstan. After about a year in this post, he was made Deputy Prime Minister on August 27, 2007 and since 2009 he has been the country's first Deputy Prime Minister. Since December 26, 2011, Schökejew was chairman of the board of the Kazakh state fund Samruk-Kazyna.

Since December 15, 2017, he has been Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister of Kazakhstan in the cabinet of Baqyjan Saghyntayev . After a change of government in February 2019, he was no longer a member of the new cabinet; instead he became Äkim of the Turkistan region on February 26, 2019 .

family

Schökejew is married and has three children.

Web links

• Biography of Ömirsaq Schökejew on zakon.kz (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Шукеев Умирзак Естаевич , accessed on May 22, 2017 (Russian).
2. ↑ bnews.kz: Шукеев Умирзак Естаевич , accessed on May 22, 2017 (Russian).
3. ↑ Reuters: Kazakh sovereign fund head moved to agriculture ministry , accessed on March 30, 2018.
4. ↑ Акимом Туркестанской области назначен Умирзак Шукеев , accessed February 28, 2019 (Russian).