Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Kassym-Jomart Kemeluly Tokayev (Kazakh: Қасым-Жомарт Кемелұлы Тоқаев, romanized: Qasym-Jomart Kemelūly Toqaev [qɑˈsəm ʑoˈmɑrt kʲeˌmʲelʊˈɫɯ toˈqɑjef]; born 17 May 1953) is a Kazakh politician and diplomat who is currently serving as the President of Kazakhstan since 20 March 2019. Between 20 March and 12 June 2019, he served as acting president after the resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who previously held the presidential post for nearly three decades.Born in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Tokayev attended the Moscow State Institute of International Relations where after graduating in 1975, he worked as a diplomat in Singapore and China. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Tokayev became the Deputy Foreign Minister of a newly independent Kazakhstan in 1992, where he was involved on the issues of nuclear disarmament within the former Soviet republics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has received more than 1,340,082 page views. Her biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is the 1,106th most popular politician (up from 2,880th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (up from 8th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Kazakhstani Politician.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is most famous for being the President of Kyrgyzstan from October 2006 to June 2007.