Zholbors Zhorobekov

Zholbors Zhorobekov is a Kyrgyz political scientist. For most of his career he was a professor at the Jusup Balasagyn Kyrgyz National University, and from 1995 to 1999 he was an acting member of the Kyrgyz parliament. He was also the head of the State Commission on Religious Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic. The following year he worked as a primary school teacher in the Nookat District, and then worked in government geological surveys and machining in 1968 and 1969. The book was called Etnodemograficheskie protsessy v Kyrgyzstane (Ethnodemographic processes in Kyrgyzstan). Zhorobekov wrote a book on the former president of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Zhorobekov was also the head the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, and Kazakh TV, on topics relating to the Kyrgyz executive and legislature.

Zhorbekov has received the Order of Manas (ru), Kyrgyzstan's highest state award.