Prof. Zhanseit TUIMEBAYEV

Category: Red Apple Diplomacy Award

Prof. Zhanseit TUIMEBAYEV| Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Ankara

He was born in 1958 in South Kazakhstan Region. He graduated from Kazakhstan State University in 1980 and from Moscow State Social University in 2000. He had received his PhD in High Sciences and earned his professorship. He had worked as teaching assistant and associate professor in Kazakhstan State University Faculty of Philology between 1980 and 1993. He began to work in Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993 and from 1994 onwards he had worked as First Secretary of Republic of Kazakhstan’s Embassy in Ankara, Advisor to Presidency Protocol, Consul General to Istanbul and Director General of Presidency Protocol. He had been Ambassador to Moscow between 2006 and 2007. He had been Minister of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan between 2007 and 2010. Since 2010 he has been Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Ankara (Turkey). He is fluent in Kazakh, Russian and Turkish. He is married with two children.