Erbol Qaraşökeev

Erbol Qaraşökeev
Ербол Қарашөкеев
Qaraşökeev in 2023
Akim of Jambyl Region
Assumed office
5 September 2023
Preceded byNurjan Nurjigitov
Minister of Agriculture
In office
11 January 2022 – 4 September 2023
PresidentKassym-Jomart Tokayev
Prime MinisterÄlihan Smaiylov
Preceded bySaparhan Omarov
Succeeded byAidarbek Saparov
Deputy Minister of Finance
In office
April 2021 – July 2021
PresidentKassym-Jomart Tokayev
Prime MinisterÄlihan Smaiylov
Personal details
Born1976 (age 48–49)
Alma materAl-Farabi Kazakh National University

Erbol Şyraqbaiūly Qaraşökeev[a] (Kazakh: Ербол Шырақбайұлы Қарашөкеев; born 1976) is a Kazakh politician, who's currently serving as akim of Jambyl Region. Before that, he was Deputy Minister of Finance of Kazakhstan[1] and Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan from 2021 until 2023.[2]

Education and career

Qaraşökeev holds a master's degree in economics and a bachelor's degree in law from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. In 2020, he was appointed chair of the management board of KazAgro Holding JSC, which he held through 2021.[1]

He then served as the Acting Deputy Head of the Department of State Control and Organizational and Territorial Work as part of the administration of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.[1]

Qaraşökeev was appointed as the Vice Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Alihan Smaiylov in April 2021, and would later succeed Saparhan Omarov as the acting Minister of Agriculture in July 2021.[3] He would retain leadership of that ministry as the bona fide Minister of Agriculture in January 2022 until September 2023.

Notes

  1. ^ Often transliterated as Yerbol Shirakbayevich Karashukeyev through a Russified Romanization of Ербол Ширакбаевич Карашукеев.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Yerbol Karashukeyev appointed Vice Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan". Official Information Source of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 2021-04-12.
  2. ^ "Vice Minister Ma Youxiang Meets with Kazakhstan Agriculture Minister Qaraşukeev". MARA. 2023-05-15.
  3. ^ "Prime Minister Askar Mamin introduces new Vice Minister - Acting Minister of Agriculture, Yerbol Karashukeyev". Official Information Source of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 10 July 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2024.