Mağjan Iliasov

Mağjan Janbotaūly Iliasov (; born 26 August 1974) is a Kazakh diplomat who serves as the Kazakh Ambassador to the United States since October 2025. Before this, from October 2022, he was the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United Kingdom, Iceland, and Ireland.

Early life and education Iliasov was born on 26 August 1974 in Alma-Ata, Soviet Kazakhstan. In 1996, he finished his studies at the Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages.

In 1998, he graduated the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael in the Hague and received a master's degree in state administration of the Harvard Kennedy School.

Career Iliasov began his diplomatic career in 1996 as a referent at the Department of International Organizations and International Economic Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, and later continued in the position of attaché in the Department of International Organizations and International Economic Relations until 1998.

He then served as Third Secretary and later Second Secretary in the United Nations and International Economic Organizations Department from 1998 to 1999. From 1999 to 2003, he worked as a consultant in the Protocol Service of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan.

In April 2023, he was also accredited concurrently as Ambassador to Iceland and Ireland. In September 2023, he spoke at the University of Oxford, at the invitation of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. He replaced Yerzhan Ashikbayev in the position.

Personal life Iliasov is married and has one son. He speaks Kazakh, Russian, English, and German.

Awards and honors Iliasov is a recipient of the medals "10 years to the Independence of Kazakhstan" and "for Distinguished Labor".