Erlan Karin Ерлан Карин | |
Office: | State Counsellor of Kazakhstan |
Term Start: | 14 June 2022 |
Predecessor: | Himself as State Secretary |
President: | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev |
Office2: | State Secretary of Kazakhstan |
Term Start2: | 5 January 2022 |
Term End2: | 14 June 2022 |
Predecessor2: | Krymbek Kusherbayev |
Successor2: | Himself as State Counsellor |
President2: | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev |
Birth Date: | 26 May 1976 |
Birth Place: | Aksukent, Sayram District, South Kazakhstan Region, Kazakh SSR, USSR |
Nationality: | Kazakhstani |
Occupation: | Politician |
Alma Mater: | Aktobe State University Al-Farabi Kazakh National University |
Party: | Nur Otan |
Erlan Tynymbaiuly Karin (Ерлан Тынымбайұлы Қарин; born on 26 May 1976 in Aksukent, Sayram District) is a Kazakh politician who is the current State Counsellor of Kazakhstan.[1]
He was born on May 26, 1976, in the village of Aksukent, and comes from the Adai clan of the Bayuly. In 1997, he graduated from the Faculty of History of Aktobe State University and in 1999 from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. From 1996-1998, he worked as a teacher of history and geography at a secondary school in Aktobe. On April 5, 2019, he was appointed Advisor to the President, later being promoted to assistant the following year. On January 5, 2022, he was appointed State Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a position which was changed on 14 June to State Counsellor.
He speaks Kazakh, Russian and English. He names Alikhan Bukeikhanov, John Kennedy and Nursultan Nazarbayev as ideal political figures. He is married and has six children.