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KazMunayGas

Shafkat Kudabayev has been appointed Deputy Chairman of KMG.

In this position, he will oversee legal issues.

Shafkat graduated from the Karaganda University of Business, Management and Law, Karaganda State University and the Russian State University of Oil and Gas.

He began his career as a leading specialist in the Ministry of State Revenues.

Over the years, he worked in the Ministry of Finance as the head of the legal department of the Tax Committee of the Ministry of Finance, the head of the tax department for the Karaganda region, the head of the specialized department of the State Revenue Committee of the Ministry of Finance; executive director of the fiscal regulation department of KAZENERGY.

In the period 2022-2024, he worked as the director of the subsoil use department of the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan. Since 2024, he worked as a business partner of the service of the chairman of the board of the department of control and organizational work and external relations of KMG.