Dariga Nazarbayeva

Dariga Nazarbayeva
Дариға Назарбаева
Nazarbayeva in 2019
7th Chairwoman of the Senate
In office 20 March 2019 – 2 May 2020
Deputy	Sergey Gromov Bektas Beknazarov Asqar Şäkirov
Preceded by	Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Succeeded by	Mäulen Äşimbaev
Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
In office 11 September 2015 – 13 September 2016
Prime Minister	Karim Massimov Bakhytzhan Sagintayev
Member of the Senate
In office 15 September 2016 – 2 May 2020
Appointed by	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Deputy Chairwoman of the Mäjilis
In office 3 April 2014 – 11 September 2015
Chairman	Kabibulla Dzhakupov
Preceded by	Kabibulla Dzhakupov
Succeeded by	Abai Tasbolatov
Leader of Amanat in the Mäjilis
In office 3 April 2014 – 11 September 2015
Leader	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded by	Nurlan Nigmatulin
Succeeded by	Kabibulla Dzhakupov
Member of the Mäjilis
In office 15 January 2021 – 25 February 2022
In office 15 January 2012 – 11 September 2015
In office 19 September 2004 – 20 June 2007
Constituency	Asar List
Chairwoman of Asar
In office 25 October 2003 – 4 July 2006
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Personal details
Born	Dariga Nursultanqyzy Nazarbayeva (1963-05-07) 7 May 1963 (age 61) Temirtau, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Amanat (2006−present)
Other political affiliations	Asar (2003−2006)
Spouse	Rakhat Aliyev (divorced 2007)
Children	Nurali (born 1985), Aisultan (1990-2020) and Venera (born 2001)[1]
Parent(s)	Nursultan Nazarbayev Sara Alpysqyzy
Alma mater	Moscow State University

Dariga Nursultanqyzy Nazarbayeva (Kazakh: Дариға Нұрсұлтанқызы Назарбаева, Dariğa Nūrsūltanqyzy Nazarbaeva; born 7 May 1963) is a Kazakh businesswoman and politician who is the daughter of Nursultan Nazarbayev who was the President of Kazakhstan from 1990 to 2019. She was a member of the Mäjilis from 2004 to 2007, 2012 to 2015 and 2021 to 2022. She was Deputy Chairwoman of Mäjilis from 2014 to 2015 until being appointed as a Deputy Prime Minister under Massimov's cabinet. She was a member of the Kazakh Senate from 2016 to 2020, serving as Senate Chairwoman from 2019 to 2020. She is one of the richest women in Kazakhstan.^[2]

Nazarbayeva began her career in 1994 in media business as she headed Khabar, the largest national television agency in Kazakhstan. In 2003, she founded the Asar party and the following year later in 2004 for the first time, Nazarbayeva was elected to the Mäjilis. While serving the post there, the Asar in 2006 merged with the Amanat, a ruling party that was led by her father Nazarbayev. Following the dissolution of the Mäjilis in 2007, Nazarbayeva did not run for re-election and remained out of politics until her eventual return in 2012 to the Mäjilis seat where she was the deputy chairwoman and parliamentary leader of Amanat. In 2015, Nazarbayeva was appointed by her father as Deputy Prime Minister under PM Karim Massimov before then returning to the Parliament in 2016 as a Senator. After her father's resignation from presidency in 2019, Nazarbayeva took over Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's role as the Senate Chairwoman, while Tokayev in turn, became the President of Kazakhstan. In 2020, she was unexpectedly removed from the post by Tokayev shortly before returning to the Mäjilis once more in 2021.

Because of Nazarbayeva's high-ranking official positions and relations with her father, it had been widely speculated that she was potentially being prepared for presidency as a way to succeed Nazarbayev's legacy in a nepotist fashion despite the dismissed claims by Nazarbayev himself.^[3][4]