Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

A graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was twice foreign minister, prime minister in 1999–2002, Chairman of the Senate and Director-General of the UN Office at Geneva in 2011–2013.

He became president after Nazarbayev resigned in March 2019 and won the June election. A 2022 constitutional reform introduced a single seven-year presidential term, and he was re-elected that year.