Ermukhamet Ertisbaev

Ermukhamet Ertisbaev
Ермұхамет Ертісбаев
Ertisbaev in 2019
Minister of Culture and Information
In office
18 January 2006 – 12 May 2008
PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev
Prime MinisterDaniyal Akhmetov
Karim Massimov
Preceded byEsetjan Kosubaev
(Culture, Information and Sports)
Succeeded byMukhtar Kul-Mukhammed
Member of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan
In office
25 March 1990 – 12 December 1993
Constituency105th Lenin
Chairman of the People's Party
Assumed office
27 March 2022
First DeputyAiqyn Qongyrov
Preceded byAiqyn Qongyrov
Personal details
Born (1956-11-19) 19 November 1956 (age 67)
Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityKazakh
Political partyPeople's Party (2022–present)
Other political
affiliations
QKP (until 1991)
Socialist Party (from 1991)
Amanat (2007–2022)
SpouseLyudmila Ertisbaeva
ChildrenShyngys Qabidin
Alma materKaragandy State University

Ermukhamet Qabidenuly Ertisbaev (Kazakh: Ермұхамет Қабиденұлы Ертісбаев, Ermūhamet Qabidenūly Ertısbaev, [jeɾmo̙χɑmʲet qɑbɯjdʲeno̙ɫɯ jeɾtɘsbɑjəf]; born 19 November 1956) is a Kazakh politician and diplomat who has served as the chairman of the People's Party of Kazakhstan since 27 March 2022. Prior to that, he served as the Kazakh ambassador to Belarus from November 2017 to August 2019 and to Georgia from April 2013 to November 2017.

Ertisbaev worked in several governmental ministries of Culture, Information which was split in March 2006 with Ertisbaev being appointed as a Culture and Information. He was also a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR from 1990 to 1994 and has served in President Nursultan Nazarbayev's administration where he had been called as Nazarbayev's "wily political adviser."[1]