BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 23. President of
Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed Ardak Zebeshev as
Deputy Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, the presidential press
service said.


“By order of the Head of State, Ardak Temirkhanuly Zebeshev has
been appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic
of Kazakhstan,” the statement said.


Zebeshev was born in 1981 in the South Kazakhstan region of the
Kazakh SSR.He began his career in 2003 as director of the branch of
the Office of the Akim of the South Kazakhstan region.


From 2004 to 2006, he served as chief specialist of the External
Relations and Investment Department at Kazakhstan’s Ministry of
Agriculture.


In 2006-2007, he was third secretary at the Embassy of
Kazakhstan in Uzbekistan.


From 2007 to 2010, he worked as second secretary at the Office
of the Minister of the State Protocol Service of Kazakhstan’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


From 2010 to 2016, Zebeshev served as chief expert and head of
sector at the External Relations and Protocol Department of the
Office of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.


In 2016-2017, he was director of the International Relations
Department at Samruk-Kazyna Invest LLP.







From 2017 to 2018, he headed the Secretariat of the Chairman of
the Management Board of Samruk-Kazyna JSC.


In 2018-2019, Zebeshev served as an adviser to the Minister of
Agriculture and Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan at the Office
of the Prime Minister.


From 2019 to 2021, he served as Chairman of the Bureau of the
UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary
Watercourses and International Lakes, a position he had held since
2018.


From 2019 to 2020, he headed the Investment Projects Support and
Implementation Department of the Investment Committee of
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


From March 2020 to September 2021, he served as Deputy Chairman
of the Investment Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


From September 2021 to February 2024, Zebeshev was Chairman of
the Investment Committee of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. From February 2024 to June 2026, he served as Deputy Akim
of the Kyzylorda region.


In June 2026, he was appointed Chairman of the Investment
Committee of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.