| Nadezhda Tokayeva | |
| Native Name Lang: | kz |
| Order: | 2nd First Lady of Kazakhstan |
| Term Label: | In role |
| Term Start: | 20 March 2019 |
| Term End: | 7 October 2020 |
| Predecessor: | Sara Nazarbayeva |
| Successor: | Vacant |
| President: | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev |
| Birth Date: | 27 September 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (Russia) |
| Children: | 1 |
Nadezhda Davydovna Tokayeva (he|נאדז'דה טוקאיבה; kk|Надежда Давыдқызы Токаева|Nadejda Davydqyzy Tokaeva; born 27 September 1958) is a Kazakh public figure who served as the First Lady of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2020, as the former wife of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.[1]
Her father and mother are from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (of Soviet-Jewish descent). An ethnic Ashkenazi Jew, Tokayeva was born in Nizhny Tagil in Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast.[2] She graduated from the Moscow State Institute for History and Archives.
She served as the honorary president of the United Nations Women's Guild in Geneva from 2011 to 2012.[3]
In March 2019, she assumed the role of first lady when her husband's predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigned after 29 years in power.[4]
Tokayeva is divorced from Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.[5] Together with her husband, she has a son, Timur (born 15 February 1984).[6] [7] [8]
In 1998, she and her son Timur opened a Credit Suisse bank account, even though she qualified as a politically exposed person, which at its height in 2005 contained 1.5 million US$. After her husband became director-general of the United Nations’ Geneva office, the account was closed in 2012, and the family opened offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands, with $5 million in assets plus properties in Geneva and Moscow at $7.7 million.[9]
