Dinara Nursultanovna Kulibayeva is the daughter of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, an economist, director of the Nursultan Nazarbayev Education Fund, a shareholder of the Kazakhstan Bank, according to Forbes magazine, the richest woman in Kazakhstan.
Dinara Kulibaeva: biography
Dinara Kulibayeva was born on August 19, 1967 in the city of Temirtau, Karaganda region.
At the end of school, the girl enters the Moscow State Theater Institute named after Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky.
After 7 years, Kulibaeva Dinara continues her studies, but in a completely different specialty, choosing the Kazakhstan Institute of Management and Forecasting. There Dinara receives a master's degree in business administration.
After that, the girl goes to the UK to take English courses at the University of Canterbury.
Returning to his homeland, Dinara Kulibayeva is working on a doctoral dissertation entitled "Methodological foundations of managing the educational system of international schools" and successfully defends it in 2007.
The beginning of Dinara’s career
The very next year, the Timur and Dinara Kulibaevs acquired the Troika Dialog company. Each spouse has at his disposal half of the shares. The Kulibayevs also manage the Halyk finance group and the KazEnergy association of the energy and oil and gas complex.
Villa by Lake Geneva
After 2 years in the newspapers, information was actively circulating that Dinara had bought a villa from the Russian businessman Rustam Aksenenko and the adjacent land for a record high price. It is known that the house has as many as 7 bedrooms. An area of 7960 square meters is located near Lake Geneva and this site cost almost 73 million dollars, which, according to experts, is 4 times the cost of other similar sites. It is also reported that Rustam Aksenenko himself at one time acquired real estate “for only” 19 million francs.
Buying a palace mansion
In the same period, the name of Timur Kulibayev often appeared in the English press due to the businessman buying an incredibly expensive palace mansion in the UK, Surrey.
Kulibayeva Dinara - the most wealthy woman in Kazakhstan
In 2011, a list of the wealthiest women in Kazakhstan was published on the Forbes pages. According to the magazine, Kulibaev Dinara takes the first place there. The girl owns an amount of 1 billion 300 million dollars, which gives her every right to be the richest woman in Kazakhstan, fourth among all who own a huge fortune, and 938th around the world.
Together with her husband, Timur Kulibaev, their condition can be identified by the number of almost 3 billion dollars.
The most influential woman in Kazakhstan in business
In 2011, Dinara was in 16th place among the most influential business people from Kazakhstan. The merit of this can be considered half of the shares of Troika Dialog, Halyk, KazEnergy, as well as shares of the People’s Kazakhstan Bank and Almex holding group. At the top of the list was Dinara’s husband, who, in addition to all of the above, also owned Samruk-Kazyna, a holding for state assets of Kazakhstan.
Non public persons
As Kulibayeva Dinara herself has repeatedly admitted to reporters, she does not want to be a media personality and tell the press extra information about her personal life. Little is known about Kulibayeva’s activity in the business world.Initially, her father, Nursultan Nazarbayev, tried to convince everyone that his daughter was in no way connected with the business, but soon the truth about the number of shares that belong to Dinara became known. In addition, information leaked to newspapers that the woman, in addition to her own shares, also controls those that belong to her husband Timur. In any case, it would be very naive to believe that all shares in gold mining, oil, construction and investment companies are managed only by Dinara’s father, and the woman herself is not involved in these matters.
Despite the impossibility of hiding some information about doing business, the Kulibaevs are trying to distance themselves even from political issues.
In 2012, experts calculated and released information that the total condition of the Kulibayev family is approximately 5 billion francs.
The minimum is known from personal information: Dinara has a husband - Timur Askarovich, and three children - a son and two daughters.
Dinara Nursultanovna Kulibaeva: social activities
At the moment, Nazarbayev’s daughter is engaged in charity, heading the Education Fund of Nursultan Nazarbayev. The fund was created in 1998 on December 15 at the initiative of Nazarbayev Nursultan Abishevich. The main objectives of the organization is the comprehensive development of education, focusing on international standards, finding gifted children and creating the best conditions for their educational activities.
Branches of the Nazarbayev Education Foundation are located throughout the country: in cities such as Almaty, Astana, Atyrau.
The educational institution has been accredited by the Association of Colleges and Schools of England, the Council of International Schools and the University of Cambridge in the UK.
In 2012, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan granted the educational institutions of the Nursultan Nazarbayev Foundation the status of international schools.
The Foundation also collaborates with the University of International Business and the International University of Modern Technology.
