Rustam Akhmetov appointed chairman of Committee on Protection and Development of Competition of the Ministry of National Economy

By order of the Minister of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Rustam Akhmetov was appointed chairman of the Committee on the Protection and Development of Competition of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Rustam Akhmetov was born Feb. 22, 1978, in Temirtau, Karaganda region. In 1999, he graduated from the Kazakh State Law University.

He began his career in 1999 as a leading specialist of theClaim Work of the Legal Department of the Ministry of State Revenues. In 2001, he was accepted as a senior referent of the State Legal Department of the Administration of the President. Over the years, he has worked as a consultant to the State Legal Department, senior expert, chief expert, head of the sector of the Department of Legislation and Legal Expertise of the Presidential Administration. In 2011, he was appointed Executive Secretary of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the Regulation of Natural Monopolies. From August 2014 to April 2017, he was deputy chairman of the Committee on Regulation of Natural Monopolies and Protection of Competition of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From April 2017, he has been deputy chairman of the Committee on Regulation of Natural Monopolies, Protection of Competition and Consumer Rights of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.