Kazakhstan Names New Foreign Policy Adviser

By presidential decree, Lazar Yernar has been appointed Adviser to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan for International Affairs, and has been released from his previous role.

Born in 1986 in Almaty, Yernar holds a master’s degree in International Relations. He earned his undergraduate degree in International Economics from Al‑Farabi Kazakh National University in 2006, and in 2011 graduated from the Institute of Diplomacy at the Academy of Public Administration under the President, The Caspian Post informs via Kazakh media.

His diplomatic career began in 2006 as a specialist in the Department of Consular Service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 2007 and 2010, he served as Attaché and Third Secretary at Kazakhstan’s Embassy in Japan. From 2011 to 2013, he was Second Secretary in the Asia & Africa Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 2013 to 2017, he served as Second and then First Secretary at the Embassy in the Netherlands.

In 2017-2018, Yernar was an advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Europe Department. Beginning in January 2018, he held various roles within the Executive Office of the President-including consultant, inspector, sector chief, and deputy head of the Department of Foreign Policy and International Relations.

On July 11, 2023, by presidential decree, he became Head of the Department of Foreign Policy and International Relations of the Executive Office, and on September 1, 2023, he was further appointed Head of the Department of Foreign Policy. Yernar currently holds the diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Second Class.

Earlier, President Tokayev decreed the appointment of Zhuldyz Suleimenova as Kazakhstan’s Minister of Enlightenment.