BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 5. Kazakh President
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed Azamat Yeskarayev as head of
the State and Legal Department of the Presidential Administration,
according to the press service of the President of Kazakhstan.
Azamat Yeskarayev was born on October 7, 1979, in Almaty. He
graduated from the Kazakh State Law Academy.
Yeskarayev began his career in 1996. In 2000, he joined the
Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan, where he held various positions
in the Legislation Department, including leading specialist, chief
specialist, deputy head of a department and head of a
department.
From 2005 to 2006, he worked as chief inspector at the Almaty
city akimat. In 2006-2007, he was chief manager of the Legal
Service Department of Kazyna Sustainable Development Fund.
In 2008-2009, Yeskarayev served as director of the Analytics and
Strategic Planning Department of the Ministry of Justice, and from
2009 to 2014, as director of its Legislation Department.
From 2014 to 2019, he was deputy head of the Legal Department of
the Office of the Prime Minister, before becoming its head in July
2019.
Yeskarayev served as Minister of Justice from January 2023 to
January 2025.
In April 2025, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to India. Since July 2026, he has
concurrently served as ambassador to Bangladesh, Bhutan, the
Maldives and Nepal.
