Zhanat B. Kurmanov

Chairman of the Executive Board of UAPF JSC Member of the Board of Directors of UAPF JSC

Date of birth: February 22, 1962

Date of election to the Board of Directors, status and functions of a member of the Board of Directors:

On May 31, 2019, he was elected to the Board of Directors of UAPF JSC as a representative of the executive body (re-elected on July 20, 2020, on June 29, 2023).

Performs the functions of a member of the Board of Directors in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Charter, the Regulations on the Board of Directors and other internal documents of UAPF JSC.

He is a member of the HR, Remuneration and Social Issues Committee of the Board of Directors of UAPF JSC and the Strategic Planning Committee of the Board of Directors of UAPF JSC.

Education:

In 1985 he graduated from the Kazakh State University named after. CM. Kirov (Almaty city) with a degree in physics.

In 1996 he defended his dissertation at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russian Federation), academic degree - Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, specialty - nuclear and elementary particle physics.

In 1996 he graduated from the Institute of Economics, Management and Law (Moscow, Russian Federation) with a degree in economics (specialization - banking).

In 2017, he graduated from Oxford University (Oxford, UK) with a diploma under the business school program.

Work experience:

Kurmanov Zh.B. started in 1985 at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR as an engineer.

In 1988-1996 he worked at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.

In 1994-1995, he conducted research in theoretical nuclear physics at the University of Pennsylvania (USA).

In 1996 he received the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Since 1996 he has been working in the financial market of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From December 1999 to July 2002, he held senior positions in the Department of Insurance Supervision and the Department of Banking and Insurance Supervision of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From August 2002 to February 2007, he worked as General Director, Deputy General Director of GNPF Accumulative Pension Fund JSC.

From 2007 to January 2016, he was a member of the board of directors of a number of financial and infrastructure organizations in the banking and insurance sectors, in the securities market. From June 2010 - Member of the Board of Directors and from May 2015 to March 2019 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange JSC.

From February 2016 to September 2017, he headed the Insurance Supervision Department, the Department for Regulation of Non-Banking Financial Organizations of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From September 2017 to March 2019, he worked as Deputy Chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan.