H.E. Mr. Yerzhan Kistafin

Date of birth: October 8, 1978.

1999 – Karaganda State University;

2014 – European Centre for International Strategic Research (Brussels);

1999 - 2000 – Bailiff of the Department of Justice of Astana city;

2000 - 2001 – Expert of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2001 - 2004 – Attaché-Council of the Legal division of the Department of International Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2004 - 2007 – Head of the Legal division of the Department of International Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2007 - 2009 – Deputy Director of the Administrative Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2009 - 2010 – Director of the Administrative Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2010 - 2015 – Minister-Counsellor of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Kingdom of Belgium;

2016 - 2019 – Director of the Administrative Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2016 - 2019 – Chair of the «Association of Kazakh diplomats»;

2019 – Director of Human Resources Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2019-2021 – Minister-Counsellor of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United States of America

Since May 18, 2021 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
Republic of Kazakhstan to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.