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Yerzhan Kaliyevich Dosmukhamedov was born on 11 November 1968 in Zhambyl, now known as Taraz, Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1992 he graduated with distinction from the Law Faculty of St Petersburg State University, Russia He earned a Master of Law degree from Southern Methodist University Law School and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University.

From 1987 to 1989 he served in the military, earning the title of excellent Serviceman of the Border Forces From 1992 to 1997 he worked as senior consultant at the Department for Legislation, Legal expertise and Analysis of the first post-independence Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as Assistant and then Chief of Staff to the Vice-President of Kazakhstan, and as Minister-Counselor and deputy Chief of Mission to Germany.

From 2000 to 2001, he was a visiting scholar at Yale University From 1999 to 2002, he was a member of the Law Faculty at Oxford University, co-founder of the World Academy for New Thinking initiated by Professor Edward de Bono and Nobel Prize laureate Professor Robert Mandell (2001), President of The Oxford Banking Forum (1999-2002), and Professor and Dean of the Law Faculty at Kazakh-American University (2002-2003).

From 2003 to 2006 he served as Deputy Director General of the KazMunaiTeniz state petroleum company and an advisor to the President of the National Petroleum Company KazMunaiGaz. During 2005-2007 he was a member of the Council of entrepreneurs under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Co-ordinating Council and Board of the Atameken National Union of entrepreneurs and employers. From April through October 2006, he was an advisor to the president of KazEnergy - Kazakhstan's Association of Oil, Gas and Power Industry Organizations. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Kazakhstan-Canada Association of entrepreneurs, and Founder of the Kenesary Khan International Foundation in the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

On 27 October 2006, the Founding Convention of Kazakhstan's centre-right political party Atameken elected him Chairman of the Atameken Party.

Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov is the author of a number of works on political and legal aspects of the post-Communist transition and international relations, including Foreign Direct Investment in Kazakhstan: Politico-Legal Aspects of Post-Communist Transition (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002).