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Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov

Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov
Minister of Education and Science
In office
22 September 2010 – 2 September 2013
President Nursultan Nazarbayev
Prime Minister Karim Massimov
Serik Akhmetov
Preceded by Zhanseit Tuymenbayev
Succeeded by Aslan Sarinzhipov
Personal details
Born (1953-08-18) 18 August 1953 (age 63)
Almaty Region, Soviet Union
(now Kazakhstan)
Political party Nur Otan

Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov (born 18 August 1953) is a Kazakh politician who was Chairman of Otan and after renamed Nur Otan, the largest political party in Kazakhstan. and acting chairman of Nur Otan party, created by merging a number of other parties into Otan.

Zhumagulov told reporters in a news conference in Astana on 25 September 2006 that Otan and Asar political parties officially merged. "In all, the merged Otan party has a membership of 700,000, which makes it the country's largest political party."

Since 2007 Nur Otan has been headed by President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

From 2010 to 2013, he held the post of Minister of Education and Science.



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