Tokayev appointed new ambassador to Greece

Tengrinews.kz - Timur Sultangozhin has been appointed as Kazakhstan’s Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Greece. The corresponding decree was signed today by the Head of State, according to Akorda.

Sultangozhin was born on September 5, 1981, in Tselinograd. He graduated from the Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages in 2002 and from the University of Wales (UK) in 2010.

He began his career as a specialist at the Kazspecexport enterprise under the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan. Since 2003, he has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, holding positions as a referent, attaché, third secretary of the Europe and America Department, and second secretary of the OSCE chairpersonship promotion center.

From 2005 to 2009, he held diplomatic posts at Kazakhstan’s Embassy in Poland before being appointed as a special adviser to the director of the OSCE/ODIHR. He later became a program officer in the ODIHR Department of Tolerance and Non-Discrimination.

Between 2013 and 2017, he served as head of the Pan-European Cooperation Department and deputy director of the Europe Department at the Kazakh Foreign Ministry. From 2017 to 2020, he was an advisor at Kazakhstan’s Embassy in Greece.

Between 2020 and 2022, he was the director of the Europe Department at the Foreign Ministry.

Before his appointment as ambassador to Greece, Sultangozhin served as minister-counselor at Kazakhstan’s Embassy in Belgium and deputy permanent representative to the EU and NATO since March 2022.

He holds the diplomatic rank of second-class counselor and is fluent in English and Polish.

Previously, President Tokayev also received the credentials of new ambassadors from nine countries: Cyprus, Japan, China, Austria, Burkina Faso, Laos, New Zealand, Denmark, and Slovenia.