Alikhan Baimenov
Alikhan Muhamediauly Baimenov (, Älihan Mūhamediiaūly Bäimenov; born 25 March 1959) is a Kazakh politician who served as a member of the Mazhilis from October 2006 to June 2007, chairman of Ak Zhol Democratic Party from March 2005 to July 2011 to which he was a nominee of in the 2005 Kazakh presidential election. Prior to that, Baimenov also served as a Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Population from August 2000 to November 2001, Head of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan from August 1998 to February 1999 and the head of Prime Minister's Office from November 1997 to August 1998. He is currently serving as a chairman of the Steering Committee of the Astana Civil Service Hub. Education 1981 – Graduated from the Karaganda Technical Institute, Kazakhstan. 1988 – Post-graduate study at the Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University in Russia. He held PhD in Technical Sciences. Career 1981-1992 – Scientific and academic work. 1992 - 1994 – Deputy Head of Administration of the Zhezkazgan region. At that period, the first autonomous newspaper "ASU" (Adam.Sana.Yakyt) was released (1992). 1995 - 1996 – Deputy, the First Deputy Minister of Labor of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 1996 - 1997 – Deputy Head of the Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Head of the Organizational and control department of the Executive Office. 1997 - 1998 – Head of the Office of the Prime Minister. 1998 - 1999 – Head of the Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 1998 - 2000 – Chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs. He was a driving force behind the establishing the first authorized agency on civil service affairs. Kazakhstan became the first state among CIS countries, which introduced a mandatory competition-based recruitment of civil servants and divided public positions into administrative and political ones. 1997 - 2001 - Chairman of the Commission on Citizenship under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan 2000 - 2001 – Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Under his leadership, for the first time among the CIS countries, the concept of three-level model of social protection and model of implementation of social insurance were developed in Kazakhstan. The necessity of insurance of employers' liability for damage to workers was also substantiated. July 1, 2011 - 2014 – Chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs (now called - the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs and Anti-Corruption). During that time, he headed the second stage of reforms in civil service. In the result, the new model reduced the number of political servants by eight times. The other initiative included introduction of Senior Executive Service – Corps “A” and professionalisation of HR departments. September 2014 – Chairman of Steering Committee of the Astana Civil Service Hub (ACSH), which serves as an institutional platform for improving civil service and