Aibek Smadiyarov

Birth date and place

Born on 7 July 1983 in South Kazakhstan Region.

Education

Graduated from Ablai Khan Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages in 2004.

Biography

Aibek Smadiyarov worked in the Foreign Ministry’s consular service and Kazakhstan’s embassies in Hungary and Vietnam. From 2018, he served as the ministry’s spokesperson and led its press service, Communications Department and Committee for International Information.

He headed the Presidential Administration’s Internal Policy Department from December 2025 to January 2026. On 29 January 2026, he was appointed presidential adviser and Presidential Press Secretary.

He holds the diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, First Class.

Career from source

• 2005–2006 – specialist in Bank of China in Kazakhstan’s administrative department.
• 2006–2008 – specialist in the Foreign Ministry’s Consular Service Department.
• 2008–2010 – attaché and third secretary in the Foreign Ministry’s Europe Department.
• 2010–2012 – third secretary at Kazakhstan’s Embassy in Hungary.
• 2012–2013 – expert in the Presidential Press Service.
• 2013–2014 – first secretary in the Foreign Ministry’s Committee for Foreign Policy Analysis and Forecasting.
• 2014–2018 – second and first secretary at Kazakhstan’s Embassy in Vietnam.
• 2018–2019 – Foreign Ministry press-service head and spokesperson.
• 2019–2023 – deputy chair of the Committee for International Information and Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
• 2023–2025 – director of the Communications Department and Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
• March–December 2025 – chair of the Committee for International Information and Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
• December 2025–January 2026 – head of the Presidential Administration’s Internal Policy Department.
• 29 January 2026 – appointed presidential adviser and Presidential Press Secretary.

Awards from source

• Halyq Algysy medal.
• Shapagat medal.