Imangali Tasmagambetov

Imangali Nurgaliuly Tasmagambetov is a retired Kazakh politician and diplomat who most recently served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation from 2017 to 2019. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2016 to 2017 and as Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan from 2014 to 2016. He was the akim of Astana from 2008 to 2014 and from 2004 to 2008, as akim of Almaty. Before that, from 2002 to 2003, he was the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.