Board Members

Board Members

Aliya Ospanova

Chairwoman of the Board

Aliya Ospanova was born on August 15, 1987 in Taldykorgan.

She is a graduate of the Kazakh-British Technical University, Imperial College London (UK) and Quantic School of Business and Technology (USA). For more than 10 years, she held senior positions in international organizations (Microsoft, Ericsson, RELX Group (Elsevier), as well as in the public and quasi-public sectors, where she took part in the development of government programs for education and science in the CIS countries. She was curating the program of transforming science and education of the Republic of Uzbekistan “Ilm-fan 2020...

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Aimgul Fakhrutdinova

Deputy Chairwoman of the Board

She was born on September 1, 1982, a native of Karaganda region.

She has a higher education in economics with a degree in finance and credit (1999-2004. graduated from KIAO "Bolashak"), an international diploma of DipIFR (2014), an international certificate of CIMA (2018 - level P1 and P2). Total work experience of 20 years in quasi-public sector organizations, where she participated in the development of regulatory documentation regulating the processes of financial activities of organizations, engaged in planning and forecasting, monitoring and analysis of budget execution, financial and eco...

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Abay Rakhmet

Deputy Chairman of the Board

He was born on March 31, 1991, in Kokshetau.

He is a graduate of the London School of Commerce, the London School of Business and Finance, and the D.A. Kunaev Eurasian Law Academy.

Overall work experience of more than 13 years in government, quasi-public sectors, national companies and in the private sector at the executive and managerial levels.

His career took place in organizations such as JSC "Center for International Programs", Department of Internal Policy, Akimat of Almaty, JSC "Administration of the Astana International Financial Center", etc.

Speaks Kazakh, Russian, Turkish and Englis...

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Arman Ashkin

Deputy Chairman of the Board

He was born on May 30, 1988, in Pavlodar region. In 2012, he graduated from "KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology" under the "Bolashak" program.

His career started in JSC "National Centre for State Scientific and Technical Expertise", where, in the period 2012-2016, he worked as a specialist, senior-specialist, Head of the "Department for work with foreign experts", Head of the "Department of State scientific and technical expertise".

In the period 2016-2019 he was a project manager, Head of the Project Directorate in JSC "Science Foundation". In 2020-2023- Director of th...

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