# Malik Otarbayev **QAZ.BIO** · Person **Review date:** 20.10.2026 **Profile ID:** `qbio:person:position-update-ap-otarbaev` **Data status:** archival source **Sources:** 5 **Profile:** ## Short brief Editor and diplomat, formerly Deputy Governor of Turkestan Region. Appointed an adviser to the President of Kazakhstan on 27 April 2022. ## Published periods - **2022-04-27** · Adviser to the President · Presidential Executive Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan · [Source]() ## Biography from sources ### Activity Holds the diplomatic rank of attaché. Speaks English and Turkish. ### Birth date and place Born in Zhambyl Region in 1980. ### Education - 2001 – Faculty of International Economic Relations, Suleyman Demirel University. - 2006 – postgraduate studies at the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Policy, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. ### Biography Malik Otarbayev is an editor, diplomat and public official. In 2006–2014, he worked for the Dialogue Eurasia and Qalamger journals and held posts at the Writers’ Union of Kazakhstan. He subsequently represented the Ministry of Culture and Sports at TURKSOY and served at Kazakhstan’s embassy in Turkey. He was Deputy Governor of Turkestan Region in 2018–2019. His later posts included leadership of a division and then the Qogamdyq Kelisim institution, the National Centre of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the Rukhani Zhangyru project office at Al-Farabi University. He was appointed an adviser to the President of Kazakhstan on 27 April 2022. He holds the diplomatic rank of attaché and speaks English and Turkish. ### Career from source - 2006–2012 – executive secretary and editor-in-chief of the Kazakhstan edition of Dialogue Eurasia. - 2012–2014 – chief coordinator of Qalamger, board secretary and Head of External Relations of the Writers’ Union of Kazakhstan. - 2014–2016 – representative of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Culture and Sports at TURKSOY. - 2016–2018 – Third Secretary of Kazakhstan’s embassy in Turkey. - 2018–2019 – Deputy Governor of Turkestan Region. - 2019–2020 – Head of the scientific and methodological service supporting the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan at Qogamdyq Kelisim under the President. - 2020 – Director of Qogamdyq Kelisim under the Ministry of Information and Social Development. - 2020–2021 – Director of the National Centre of Manuscripts and Rare Books under the Ministry of Culture and Sports. - 2021–2022 – Director of the Rukhani Zhangyru project office and adviser to the Chair of the Management Board and Rector of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. - 27 April 2022 – appointed an adviser to the President of Kazakhstan. ### Awards from source - 2021 – Eren Enbegi Ushin medal. - 2024 – Qurmet Order. ## Facts from the source - **Role start date:** 27.04.2022 - **Current role:** Adviser to the President - **Organisation:** Presidential Executive Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan ## Sources - **akorda.kz** · archival source · 20.10.2026 · - **qaz.bio** · archival source · 20.10.2026 · - **mirror.akorda.kz** · source available · - **akorda.kz** · source available · - **akorda.kz** · source available · [Profile JSON](https://qaz.bio/api/v1/profiles/p/position-update-ap-otarbaev)