Zhenis Kassymbek
Zhenis Makhmuduly Kassymbek (, "Jeñıs Mahmūdūly Qasymbek"; born 7 May 1975) is a Kazakh politician. From February to September 2019, he served as a Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. In 2016, Kassymbek was appointed as the Minister of Investment and Development. Between 2014 and 2016, he served as the Minister of Transport and Communications. Biography. Early life and education. The son of Mahmud Kassymbek, Zhenis Kassymbek was born to a Muslim family in the village of Shu. In 1997 he graduated from the Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering as an architectural designer. In 2001, he graduated  from the L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. Career. After graduating in 1997, Kassymbek was a trainee researcher at the Kazakh Haed Architecture and Civil Engineering Academy. In 1998, he became a chief specialist of Temirbank OJSC. From 1998 to 2000, Kassymbek served as the head of Department of the Committee on Antimonopoly Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2000, he became the director of the Department of Water Transport of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Kazakhstan until becoming the director of the RSE Aktau International Sea Trade Port. On 4 November 2005, he  was appointed as a Vice Minister of Transport and Communications and from 11 March 2009, Kassymbek was the executive secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. On 7 March 2014, he became a Minister of Transport and Communications until the ministry was abolished on 6 August 2014. Shortly after, Kassymbek was appointed as the First Vice Minister for Investment and Development on 13 August 2014. He became its Minister on 21 June 2016 and served that position until the government was dismissed in February 2019. Following formation of Mamin's cabinet, Kassymbek was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister  of Kazakhstan on 25 February 2019. He served that post before becoming the akim of Karaganda Region on 19 September 2019.