Kanat Saudabayev

Kanat Saudabayev
Saudabayev in 2009
State Secretary of Kazakhstan
In office 15 May 2007 – 23 September 2012
President	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded by	Oralbay Abdykarimov
Succeeded by	Mukhtar Kul-Mukhammed
Head of the Office of the Prime Minister
In office 13 October 1999 – 13 December 2000
Prime Minister	Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Preceded by	Altai Tileuberdin
Succeeded by	Altai Tileuberdin
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 4 September 2009 – 8 April 2011
President	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Prime Minister	Karim Massimov
Preceded by	Marat Tazhin
Succeeded by	Yerzhan Kazykhanov
In office 18 April 1994 – 12 October 1994
Prime Minister	Sergey Tereshchenko
Preceded by	Tuleutai Suleimenov
Succeeded by	Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States
In office 14 February 2001 – 15 May 2007
President	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded by	Bolat Nurgaliyev
Succeeded by	Erlan Idrissov
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United Kingdom
In office 14 November 1996 – 13 October 1999
President	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded by	Nurtai Abykayev
Succeeded by	Adil Ahmetov (2000)
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Turkey
In office 17 May 1992 – 14 November 1996
President	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Baltash Tursumbaev
Member of the Mazhilis
In office 26 August 2015 – 20 January 2016
Personal details
Born	(1946-07-18) 18 July 1946 (age 77) Zhetigen, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Kazakh
Children	3
Alma mater	Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Kanat Bekmyrzauly Saudabayev (Kazakh: Қанат Бекмырзаұлы Саудабаев, Qanat Bekmyrzaūly Saudabaev) (born 18 July 1946) is a Kazakh politician who served as the State Secretary of Kazakhstan from 2007 to 2012. Prior to that, he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2011 and in 1994, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States from 2000 to 2007, Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1996 to 1999 and Ambassador to Turkey from 1994 to 1996.