Birghanym Aitimova

Birghanym Aitimowa (2009)

Birghanym Saryqysy Äitimowa ( Kazakh Бірғаным Сарықызы Әйтімова , Russian Бырганым Сариевна Айтимова Byrganym Sarijewna Ajtimowa * 26. February 1953 in Bakauschino, Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh politician . She has been a senator in the Kazakh Senate since 2013 . Before that, she held high-ranking positions in Kazakh politics. She was Minister of Education and Tourism, and from 2007 to 2013 she was the permanent representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations .

Life

Birghanym Äitimowa was born in 1953 in the village of Bakauschino in Zelenov County in western Kazakhstan . She graduated from the Pushkin Pedagogical Institute in Uralsk in 1974 and graduated from Al Farabi University in 1994 .

After studying at the Pushkin Institute, she first worked as an English teacher at a school before joining the Komsomol . From 1976 to 1979 she was a functionary in a committee. She later served on the regional committee and then first secretary of the Uralsk city committee and finally first secretary of the regional committee. In 1983 she became secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol in the Kazakh SSR. Between 1988 and 1990 she was the deputy chairman of the Kazakh branch of the All-Soviet Children's Fund. She then became a member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan, where she headed the Committee on Youth Affairs until 1993.

In 1993 she held the post of Minister for Youth, Tourism and Sport in Prime Minister Sergei Tereschenko's cabinet . In January 1996 she was appointed senator in the Kazakh Senate by a decree of the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev . In October of the same year she became her country's ambassador to Israel . After about six years, she left this post and instead became ambassador to Italy . On December 13, 2004, she became the Kazakh Minister of Education and Science. On January 10, 2007 she was replaced by Shanseyit Tüimebajew in this office. On February 12, she succeeded Yershan Qasykhanov as permanent representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations .

Aetimova has been a senator again since August 26, 2013. From October 2014, she was a member of the Committee on International Relations, Defense and Security and since September 2017 she has been Chair of the Committee on Social and Cultural Development and Science.

Private

Äitimowa is married to Nurlan Abdullaev. The couple have a son and a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Byrganym Aitimova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography of Birghanym Äitimowa on zakon.kz (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan presents credentials un.org, accessed on July 27, 2019.