Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

**Kassym-Jomart Kemelevich Tokayev** (born 17 May 1953) is a Kazakh politician and diplomat. He became the President of Kazakhstan on 20 March 2019, after Nursultan Nazarbayev resigned on 19 March 2019.

He was Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan from 16 October 2013 to 19 March 2019 and from 11 January 2007 to 15 April 2011.

Tokayev was Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 1 October 1999 to 28 January 2002 and as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva from 12 March 2011 to 16 October 2013.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
- **native name lang**: kz
- **image**: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kazakhstan on 24 April 2024 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Tokayev in 2024
- **office**: 2nd President of Kazakhstan
- **term start**: 12 June 2019
- **primeminister**: Askar Mamin
Alihan Smaiylov
- **predecessor**: Nursultan Nazarbayev
- **office1**: Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan
- **term start1**: 5 January 2022
- **predecessor1**: Nursultan Nazarbayev
- **office2**: 6th Chair of the Senate of Kazakhstan, Chair of the Senate
- **term start2**: 16 October 2013
- **term end2**: 19 March 2019
- **deputy2**: Qairat Işçanov
Asqar Beisenbaev
Sergey Gromov
Bektas Beknazarov
- **predecessor2**: Kairat Mami
- **successor2**: Dariga Nazarbayeva
- **term start3**: 11 January 2007
- **term end3**: 15 April 2011
- **deputy3**: Muhambet Kopeev
Aleksandr Sudin
- **predecessor3**: Nurtai Abykayev
- **successor3**: Kairat Mami
- **office4**: State Secretary of Kazakhstan
- **term start4**: 29 January 2002
- **term end4**: 13 June 2003
- **president4**: Nursultan Nazarbayev
- **predecessor4**: Abish Kekilbayev
- **successor4**: Imangali Tasmagambetov
- **order5**: 4th
- **office5**: Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- **term start5**: 12 October 1999
- **term end5**: 28 January 2002

- **president5**: Nursultan Nazarbayev
- **1blankname5**: First Deputy
- **1namedata5**: Aleksandr Pavlov (politician), Aleksandr Pavlov
(1999–2000)
Daniyal Akhmetov
(2000–2001)
- **predecessor5**: Nurlan Balgimbayev
- **successor5**: Imangali Tasmagambetov
- **office6**: Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- **term start6**: 15 March 1999
- **term end6**: 1 October 1999
- **primeminister6**: Nurlan Balgimbayev
- **office7**: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kazakhstan), Minister of Foreign Affairs
- **term start7**: 29 January 2002
- **term end7**: 11 January 2007
- **president7**: Nursultan Nazarbayev
- **primeminister7**: Imangali Tasmagambetov
(2002–2003)
Daniyal Akhmetov
(2003–2007)
Karim Massimov
(2007)
- **predecessor7**: Erlan Idrissov
- **successor7**: Marat Tazhin
- **term start8**: 13 October 1994
- **term end8**: 12 October 1999
- **primeminister8**: Akezhan Kazhegeldin
(1994–1997)
Nurlan Balgimbayev
(1997–1999)
- **predecessor8**: Kanat Saudabayev
- **successor8**: Erlan Idrissov
- **office9**: Member of the Senate of Kazakhstan, Senate
- **term start9**: 16 October 2013
- **term end9**: 19 March 2019
- **term start10**: 11 January 2007
- **term end10**: 15 April 2011
- **office11**: Chairman of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, Assembly of People
- **term start11**: 28 April 2021
- **predecessor11**: Nursultan Nazarbayev
- **order12**: 11th
- **office12**: United Nations Office at GenevaDirector-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
- **term start12**: 12 March 2011
- **term end12**: 16 October 2013
- **predecessor12**: Sergei Ordzhonikidze
- **successor12**: Michael Møller
- **birth name**: Kassym-Jomart Kemelevich Tokayev
- **birth place**: Almaty, Alma-Ata, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
(now Almaty, Kazakhstan)
- **nationality**: Kazakhstani
- **party**: Nur Otan
- **otherparty**: Communist Party of the Soviet Union, KPSS
 (before 1991)
- **spouse**: Nadezhda Tokayeva
 (divorced)
- **children**: Timur Tokayev,
Manira Tokayev
- **residence**: Ak Orda Presidential Palace
- **alma mater**: Moscow State Institute of International Relations
- **signature**: Tokayev signature.svg
- **website**: [https://www.akorda.kz/en/ akorda.kz]
- **branch**: Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- **serviceyears**: 2019–present
- **rank**:
Supreme Commander