Yernar M. Lazar

Birth date and place

Born in Almaty in 1986.

Education

• 2006 – International Economics, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.
• 2011 – Institute of Diplomacy of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Kazakhstan.
• Master’s degree in international relations.

Biography

Yernar Lazar is a diplomat with experience in consular work, Kazakhstan’s embassies and foreign policy departments. He began his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2006, served in Japan and the Netherlands, and worked in the ministry’s Asia and Africa and Europe departments.

From January 2018, he held posts in the Foreign Policy and International Relations Department of the Presidential Administration. He was appointed its head in July 2023 and led the Foreign Policy Department in 2023–2025.

On 29 September 2025, he was appointed an adviser to the President of Kazakhstan for international affairs. He graduated from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and the Institute of Diplomacy of the Academy of Public Administration.

He holds a master’s degree in international relations and the diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, second class.

Career from source

• 2006 – specialist in the Consular Service Department of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 2007–2010 – attaché and Third Secretary at Kazakhstan’s embassy in Japan.
• 2011–2013 – Second Secretary in the Asia and Africa Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 2013–2017 – Second Secretary and First Secretary at Kazakhstan’s embassy in the Netherlands.
• 2017–2018 – counsellor in the Europe Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• From January 2018 – held posts as consultant, inspector, sector head and deputy department head in the Foreign Policy and International Relations Department of the Presidential Administration.
• 11 July 2023 – appointed Head of the Foreign Policy and International Relations Department of the Presidential Administration.
• 2023–2025 – Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration.
• 29 September 2025 – appointed an adviser to the President of Kazakhstan for international affairs.