Asan Darbayev

He was born in 1984, he received higher education, graduating from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in 2005 with a degree in Finance and Financial Law. In 2007, he completed a master’s program in Finance at the Kazakh Economic University named after T. Ryskulov, followed by another master’s program in Public and Local Governance at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2009. In 2012, he obtained a master’s degree in Project Management from the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) through the Bolashak program.

Throughout his career, he held various positions in both public and private organizations. He started working as a leading specialist at the Ministry of Finance, then transitioned to the field of antimonopoly regulation and served as a chief specialist in territorial divisions. He also worked at the Center for Development and Protection of Competitive Policy and the Kazakh Association of Organizations in the Oil and Gas and Energy Complex (KazEnergy). From 2013 to 2015, he held positions ranging from deputy director to head of the Department of the Committee for Regulation of Natural Monopolies and Competition at the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since 2015, he has been Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Regulation of Natural Monopolies, Competition, and Consumer Rights at the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since September 2019, he has served as the Chairman of the Committee for Regulation of Natural Monopolies at the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.