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Marat Tazhin

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Born in 1960 in Aktubinsk.
Graduated from Almaty National Economy Institute, post graduate study at Kazakh State University.
Worked as an Engineer - Economist of the Council on industrial resources of Science Academy, Senior Lecturer at Kazakh State University.
1987 – 1988, internship in London University, Great Britain.
1991 – 1992, Head of Department at the Advanced Vocational Training of Lecturers Institute, named after Al-Farabi.
Since 1992 held various positions in Presidential Apparatus and Cabinet Ministers: First Deputy Head, Head of Internal Policy Department, Deputy Head of the Presidential Apparutus, Head of the Information and Analytical Center.
1994 – 1995, State Adviser to the President.
1995 – 1999, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, Head of the Analysis and Strategic Researches Center of the Administration of the President.
1999 – 2001, Assistant to the President on national security issues – Secretary of the Security Council of Kazakhstan.
2000, appointed Chairman of the State Anti-corruption Commission.
2001, appointed Head of the National Security Committee.
2002, appointed Assistant to the President on national security issues – Secretary of the Security Council of Kazakhstan.
August 2002 – April 2006,  First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration.
April 2006, Secretary of the Security Council and Aid to the President.
January 2007, appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in Masimov’s Government.

Marat Tazhin is one of few new Ministers who came to Masimov’s Government right after the resignation of Akhmetov’s Government in January 2007. Most of the Ministers retained their seats.
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