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Tengrinews.kz – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed Magzhan Ilyassov as Kazakhstan’s new ambassador to the United States, according to the Akorda press service.
By presidential decree, Ilyassov was relieved of his duties as ambassador to the United Kingdom, as well as ambassador to Iceland and Ireland on a concurrent basis.
Born on August 26, 1974, in Almaty, Magzhan Ilyassov graduated with honors from the Faculty of International Relations at the Kazakh State University of World Languages and earned a master’s degree from Harvard Kennedy School in the United States.
He began his diplomatic career in 1996 as a referent and later served as an attaché in the Department of International Organizations and International Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1999 to 2003, he worked in the Presidential Administration, first in the protocol service and later in the Chancellery.
From 2016 to 2020, he was Kazakhstan’s ambassador to the Netherlands and concurrently served as the country’s permanent representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). He later represented Kazakhstan as permanent representative to the United Nations from 2020 to 2022.
Since October 2022, Ilyassov has served as ambassador to the United Kingdom and, since April 2023, also as ambassador to Iceland and Ireland on a concurrent basis.
The appointment follows the dismissal of Yerzhan Ashikbayev, who was relieved of his post as Kazakhstan’s ambassador to the U.S. in late September after President Tokayev’s visit to New York.
