Erbol Qaraşökeev

Erbol Şyraqbaiūly Qaraşökeev is a Kazakh politician, who's currently serving as akim of Jambyl Region. Before that, he was Deputy Minister of Finance of Kazakhstan and Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan from 2021 until 2023.

Education and career

Qaraşökeev holds a master's degree in economics and a bachelor's degree in law from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. In 2020, he was appointed chair of the management board of KazAgro Holding JSC, which he held through 2021.
He then served as the Acting Deputy Head of the Department of State Control and Organizational and Territorial Work as part of the administration of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Qaraşökeev was appointed as the Vice Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Alihan Smaiylov in April 2021, and would later succeed Saparhan Omarov as the acting Minister of Agriculture in July 2021. He would retain leadership of that ministry as the bona fide Minister of Agriculture in January 2022 until September 2023.