Oraz Jandosov

Oraz Aliuly Jandosov (, Oraz Aliūly Jandosov; born 26 October 1961) is a Kazakh politician and businessman. He was the chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan from 1996 to 1998, First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from February 1998 to January 1999, Minister of Finance from January to October 1999, Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from December 2000 to November 2001, assistant to the President of Kazakhstan from January to June 2003, chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Regulation of Natural Monopolies and Protection of Competition from June 2003 to July 2004.

Family and personal life

Early life and education Jandosov was born in the city of Alma-Ata (now Almaty). In 1983, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University as a cybernetic economist.

Family His father Ali Jandosov (born 1935) was a historian while his mother Klavdiya Pishchulina (born 1934) was a historian-orientalist, candidate of historical sciences, and leading specialist in the history of medieval Kazakhstan. Jandosov is the grandson of Oraz Jandosov (1899–1935) who was a People's Commissar and was executed under Stalin.

He is married and has two daughters and a son.

Early career From 1987, Jandosov worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. From 1991 to 1992, he served as a consultant, and the head of the department of the apparatus of the Supreme Economic Council under the President of Kazakhstan.

From 1992 to 1994, Jandosov was the First Deputy Chairman of the National Agency for Foreign Investment under the Ministry of Economy, First Deputy Minister of Economy and the chairman of the National Agency for Foreign Investment under the Ministry of Economy. He served that position until 22 January 1999, when he was appointed as the Minister of Finance. After the government was dismissed on 1 October 1999, Jandosov became the president of KEGOC OJSC company. Following his dismissal on 21 November 2001 after becoming a member of the Political Council of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, Jandosov became the chairman of the Board of the Association of Financiers of the Republic of Kazakhstan on 7 December 2001. He served that position until 10 September 2002.

On 20 June 2003, he was appointed as the chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Regulation of Natural Monopolies and Protection of Competition as part of the Council for Economic Policy. He was dismissed from the position on 7 July 2004. The party applied for registration to the Ministry of Justice, but by the order of the Registration Service Committee of the Ministry of Justice dated 22 August 2005, it was denied registration. However, only on 17 March 2006, after the decision of the Supreme Court, the party was registered with the justice authorities.

In September 2005, Jandosov became the deputy head of the campaign headquarters for support of Zharmakhan Tuyakbay in the 2005 Kazakh presidential election.

Other activities On 23 December 2008, Jandosov was appointed as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Economists of Kazakhstan. In 2016 and 2019, he served as an independent director and member of the Board of Directors of the National Management Holding KazAgro JSC. Jandosov is currently a member of a Board of Directors of the Damu Entrepreneurship Development Fund from June 2018, independent director of Kazpost JSC from September 2018, member of the National Council of Public Confidence under the President of Kazakhstan from July 2019 and member of the Center for Analysis of Monitoring of Socio-Economic Reforms under the President from February 2020.