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Daniya Madiyevna Yespaeva

Economist, former bank branch director and Deputy Speaker during the eighth convocation of the Mazhilis. Registered as a Kurultai deputy from Ak Zhol in August 2026.

Archival source 20.10.2026

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Biography from sources

Activity

Mazhilis (eighth convocation): Deputy Speaker, Ak Zhol faction.

Birth date and place

Born on 5 March 1961 in Yaisan, Martuk district, Aktobe region.

Education

  • 1982 – Alma-Ata Accounting and Credit College of the USSR State Bank.
  • 1993 – Kazakh State Academy of Management.

Biography

Daniya Yespaeva is an economist with a long career in banking. She began work in 1982 at the Aktobe regional office of the USSR State Bank.

She subsequently worked at Promstroybank, the Turan insurance company, AlemBank and BankTuranAlem, and headed the Aktobe branches of BTA Bank and Kazkommertsbank. She served in the sixth convocation of the Mazhilis in 2016–2021 as a member of the Finance and Budget Committee and in the seventh convocation in 2021–2023 as that committee’s secretary.

Archived records from the eighth convocation identify her as Deputy Speaker of the Mazhilis. The published CEC record of 27 August 2026 registers her as a deputy in the Kurultai’s first convocation from Ak Zhol.

Her parliamentary biography also records elections to the regional maslikhat in 2008 and 2012.

Career from source

  • 1982–1986 – Economist in the industry and other sectors lending department at the city office of the USSR State Bank’s Aktobe regional branch, Aktobe.
  • 1986–1988 – Senior economist in the industry and other sectors lending department at the city office of the USSR State Bank’s Aktobe regional branch, Aktobe.
  • 1988–1991 – Senior Economist of the Aktobe Regional Department of the Industrial and Construction Bank of the USSR, Aktobe.
  • 1991 – Senior Specialist of the sector for money circulation and cash transactions of the Aktobe Regional Department of the State Commercial Industrial and Construction Bank, Aktobe.
  • 1991 – Senior specialist of the Aktobe Department of the Kazakh joint-stock bank Turanbank, Aktobe.
  • 1991–1992 – Chief Accountant of the Aktobe branch of the joint-stock commercial insurance company “Turan”, Aktobe.
  • 1992–1995 – Deputy Director of Aktobe Branch of Joint-stock Commercial Insurance Company Turan LLP, Aktobe.
  • 1995–1997 – Chief specialist of Aktobe regional Department of AlemBank Kazakhstan, Aktobe.
  • 1997 – Deputy Head of the Lending Department of the Aktobe branch of BankTuranAlem CJSC, Aktobe.
  • 1997–1998 – Acting Head of the Lending Department of the Aktobe branch of BankTuranAlem CJSC, Aktobe.
  • 1998–2005 – Deputy Director of the Aktobe branch of JSC “BankTuranAlem”, Aktobe.
  • 2005–2016 – Director of the Aktobe branch of BankTuranAlem JSC, Aktobe.
  • 2014–2016 – Director of the Aktobe branch of the Western Regional Directorate of Kazkommertsbank JSC, Aktobe.
  • 2016–2021 – Member of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the VI convocation, member of the Finance and Budget Committee, Astana.
  • 2021–2023 – Member of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the VII convocation, Secretary of the Finance and Budget Committee, Astana.

Awards from source

  • 2011 – The Order “Kurmet”.
  • 2020 – Order “Parasat”.

Timeline

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  1. Role
    Deputy in the Kurultai’s first convocationKurultai of the Republic of Kazakhstanelection.gov.kz, opens in a new tab
  2. Role
    Заместитель Председателя МажилисаМажилис VIII созываmazhilis.parlam.kz, opens in a new tab

Facts from the source

Source statusverified
Disclosures2024
Source ID4
Current roleDeputy in the Kurultai’s first convocation
OrganisationKurultai of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Names and variants

  • Dania Madikyzy Yespaeva
  • Еспаева Дания Мадиевна
  • Еспаева Дания Мадиқызы