NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF KAZAKHSTAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

Mukhtar Tileuberdi, the new Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Tileuberdi had been serving as Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation and as Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, since July 2008. From 2004 to 2008, he was Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to Malaysia, and from 2005 to 2008, he was Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and the Philippines concurrently. He was Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan from 2003 to 2004.

A career diplomat, Mr. Tileuberdi has served as Counsellor at Kazakhstan’s Embassy in Israel from 2001 to 2003; and Third Secretary and then Second Secretary at the Embassy of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Korea from 1996 to 1999. He has also held other posts at the Ministry. He worked at Kazakh State University from 1990 to 1993, first as a junior member of the research staff of the Chair of Philosophy and History, and then as Assistant to the Chair of Chinese Philology.

Mr. Tileuberdi has degrees from Kazakh State University in Almaty (1990); the Institute of Asia and Africa by Moscow State University (1992); and the University of Jensey in Seoul, Republic of Korea (1994). He was born on 30 June, 1968 in South Kazakhstan Region. He is married with two children.


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