Director
	Yermek Kuantyrov
	Date of birth: 20.09.1989
	Place of birth: Atyrau

Education:

• Columbia University, Law School, Master of Laws (LL.M.) (Class of 2014) under the “Bolashak” Scholarship of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, New York, U.S.
• KAZGUU University, Bachelor of Law (Class of 2012), Nur-Sultan, Republic of Kazakhstan.
• Tomsk State University, Bachelor of International Relations (Class of 2010), Tomsk, Russian Federation.
• Fluent in Kazakh, Russian, English, French, and Mandarin Chinese.
• Member of the Presidential Youth Personnel Reserve (since 2019).

Professional activity:

• Director, Department of Sublegislative Acts, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan (since October 2020 upon approval by the National Commission on Personnel Policy under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan).
• Director, National Institute of Intellectual Property, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2020).
• Acting Deputy Director, Deputy Director, Department of Intellectual Property Rights, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2019 - 2020).
• Deputy Director, National Institute of Intellectual Property, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2017 - 2019).
• Chief Expert, Department for Protection of State Property Rights, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2016 - 2017).
• Expert, State and Law Division, Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2015 - 2016).
• Expert, Department for Protection of State Property Rights, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2014 - 2015).
• Expert, Department of International Economic Integration, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2011 - 2014).
• Manager, International Cooperation Department, “Kazakhstan Temir Zholy” National Company (“Kazakhstan Railways”) (2010 - 2011).

Trainig Courses:

• CEIPI/WIPO/INPI Advanced Training Course on Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Licensing (WIPO PDP) (2019), Strasbourg, France.
• Executive Training on Investment Treaties and Arbitration for Government Officials, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University, (2017), New York, U.S.

	Deputy Director
	Nurdaulet Abulkairov
	Date of birth: 05.09.1972
	Place of birth: Kokshetau region

Education: 

• Karagandy State University (1989 – 1994)
• Humanitarian University named after D.A.Kunayev (1996 – 1999)

• Deputy Director of the State Enterprise “National Institute of Intellectual Property” of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Since 2013)
• Deputy Director of the State Enterprise “National Institute of Intellectual Property” of the Committee for Intellectual Property Rights of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of  Kazakhstan (Since 2007)
• Assistant of Prosecutor in Akmola oblast on supervision of application international treaties (2005-2007)
• Prosecutor of Astrakhan district  in Akmola region (2003-2005)
• Deputy Prosecutor of Kokshetau  in Akmola region (2001 – 2003)
• Deputy Prosecutor on Nature Protection Sphere in Akmola region (2001)
• Head of Division on Supervision of Legitimacy at Judicial Decree in criminal case of Prosecutor office of  Kokshetauin Akmola region (2000 – 2001)
• Assistant, Senior Assistant of Prosecutor of Kokshetau of Akmola region (2000)
• Assistant of Prosecutor of Petropavlovsk in North Kazakhstan region of the Division on Supervision of  Legitimacy inSocial – Economic Sphere (1998 – 2000)
• Assistant of Prosecutor in the sphere of juridical statistics and information of Petropavlovsk Prosecutor office of North Kazakhstan (1997 – 1998)
• Acting Prosecutor Assistant in Kokshetau of Kokshetau region (1996 – 1997)
• Tax inspector of Kokshetau region Tax inspection (1994 – 1996)