The building of the Parliament of the Republic of KazakhstanNUR-SULTAN, Feb. 3 Senate (upper house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan agreed to appoint the former head of NAC Kazatomprom JSC Galymzhan Pirmatov as chairman of the National Bank, follows from the broadcast, which was conducted on Thursday on the website of the chamber. According to the constitution, in order to appoint the chairman of the National Bank, the president of Kazakhstan must obtain the consent of the Senate of Parliament. The position of head of the National Bank became vacant after the former head of this department, Yerbolat Dosaev, headed the akimat (mayor's office) of Alma-Ata on January 31. At a meeting of the chamber on Thursday, the president proposed Pirmatov's candidacy to the deputies of the Senate, the corresponding submission was made by the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Timur Suleimenov. «The decision was made, consent given,” said Maulen Ashimbaev, chairman of the chamber, summing up the voting results. mathematician, graduated from Novosibirsk State University. Later he graduated from the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Forecasting, and also studied under the MBA program at Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University.
Over the years, he worked in the banking sector, held the positions of Vice Minister of National Economy, Deputy Chairman National Bank. From August 2017 to September 2021, he headed the national company «Kazatomprom».