Madina Abylqasymowa

Madina Jerassylqysy Abylqassymowa ( Kazakh Мадина Ерасылқызы Абылқасымова , Russian Мадина Ерасыловна Абылкасымова / Madina Jerassylowna Abylkassymowa * 1. August 1978 in Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh politician . She has been Kazakhstan's first deputy economy minister since March 2019.

Life

Madina Abylqassymowa was born in Alma-Ata in 1978. She graduated from the Institute for Economics in her hometown in 1999 . In 2003 she obtained a Master of International Relations from Columbia University and in 2011 a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University .

She began her professional career in 1999 as an employee of the Kazakhstani strategic planning agency. Between 2003 and 2004 she was the head of the strategic planning department of the Ministry of Economy and Budgeting. For the next two years she worked for the Center for Marketing and Analytical Research as Director of the Policy Analysis Department. From 2006 to 2008 Abylqassymowa was the deputy head of the social and economic department of the Prime Minister's Office and then until 2011 the deputy head of the Center for Strategic Development and Analysis of the Kazakh Presidential Administration. She then held the post of Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade before serving as Deputy Minister for Economy and Budget Planning from 2013 to 2014. Since August 2014, she has been Deputy Minister of National Economy and since February 9, 2018, Abylqassymowa has been Kazakh Minister of Labor and Social Protection.

In early February 2019, Abylqasymowa and her ministry drew criticism after five children were killed in a fire in Nur-Sultan (Astana until 2019) while both parents were working. Demonstrating mothers then called for the resignation of the labor minister, who had previously expressed opposition to financial subsidies for mothers. After a change of government in late February, she was no longer a member of the government.

On March 12, 2019, she was appointed Kazakhstan's first deputy economy minister.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Абылкасымова Мадина Ерасыловна , accessed October 20, 2018 (Russian).
2. ↑ Dozens Of Mothers Protest In Kazakhstan Demanding Government Support , accessed on February 28, 2019.
3. ↑ 1st National Economy Vice Minister of Kazakhstan named , accessed March 12, 2019.