Asqar Şäkirov

Asqar Orazalyūly Şäkırov (; born 2 February 1956) is a Kazakh politician who served as a Deputy Chair of the Senate of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2023.

Biography

Early life and education Şäkirov was born in the city of Karaganda. He graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Countries at the Moscow State University with a degree in orientalist history in 1978.

Career From 1978 to 1987, he was the adjunct, inspector, senior inspector of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR in the group to ensure the work of the Soviet Representative in the UN Committee on Combating Crime and Criminal Justice. In 1987, Şäkirov became the assistant at the Foreign Relations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1992 to 1995, he was the Head of the Contractual and Legal department, deputy head, Head of the Main Contractual and Legal Department of the Kazakhstan Ministry of Foreign Affairs before becoming the Charge d'Affaires of Kazakhstan to South Korea.

On 12 August 2019, by the decree of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Şäkirov became a member of the Senate of Kazakhstan where he on 2 September 2019 was elected as the Deputy Chair of the Senate. On 2 July 2020, Şäkirov was awarded the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.