Marat K. Ashim

Birth date and place

Born in Almaty in 1987.

Education

• 2008 – bachelor’s degree, Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University.
• 2010 – bachelor’s degree in economics and business at the same university.
• 2010 – master’s degree in international relations, Institute of Diplomacy of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Kazakhstan.

Biography

Marat Ashim is a diplomat whose work has focused on state and presidential protocol. After working as a lawyer in a private company, he served as an attaché and third secretary at Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 2012, he held presidential protocol posts as a referent, expert, consultant, inspector, sector head and deputy chief of protocol. He headed the Presidential Protocol Service in 2023–2025.

On 9 September 2025, he was appointed an adviser to the President and Chief of the Presidential Protocol Service. He studied at Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University and the Institute of Diplomacy of the Academy of Public Administration.

He holds the diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, second class.

Career from source

• 2008–2009 – lawyer at a private company.
• 2009 – attaché in the human resources division of the Administration and Control Department of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 2010–2012 – Third Secretary of the State Protocol Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 2012–2017 – referent, expert, consultant and inspector in the Presidential Protocol Service.
• 2017–2018 – sector head in the Presidential Protocol Service.
• April 2018 – Deputy Chief of Presidential Protocol.
• 2023–2025 – Chief of the Presidential Protocol Service.
• 9 September 2025 – appointed an adviser to the President and Chief of the Presidential Protocol Service.

Awards from source

• Qurmet Order.
• Eren Enbegi Ushin medal.