#Murat Nurtileu

Murat Abugalievich Nurtileu (born March 11, 1976, Almaty) is a Kazakhstani statesman and diplomat. He has been the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan since April 3, 2023. 

He began his career in 1999 as an attaché at the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Malaysia. 

In 2003, he was appointed the second secretary of the Asia and Africa Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. 

From 2004 to 2006, he served as an advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and later as the head of the Minister's secretariat. 

On January 16, 2007, by the order of the Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Senate Apparatus. He held the position of Head of the Senate Apparatus from 2007 to 2011. 

In 2011, he was appointed Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, and in the same year, he was made Director of the Asia and Africa Department at the Ministry. 

Since 2011, he has been serving as Counselor-Envoy at Kazakhstan's Permanent Mission in Geneva. 

In 2014, he became the Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Center of the Administration of the President of Kazakhstan.

On March 29, 2016, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Finland, and since February 2017, he also held the position of Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia. 

On March 24, 2019, he was appointed Assistant to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 

In February 2021, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 

On January 5, 2022, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev appointed Murad Nurtileu as the First Deputy Chairman of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan. This personnel change occurred in the context of mass protests in Kazakhstan caused by the rise in liquefied gas prices. 

On February 1, 2022, he was appointed Head of the Administration of the President of Kazakhstan. 

On April 3, 2023, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, and he was reappointed on February 6, 2024.

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