Co-Chairs’ Meeting of the FIC Events Preparation Working Group Held

19 May 2026

On 19 May 2026, in the framework of preparation for the 38th Plenary Session of the Foreign Investors’ Council (FIC) chaired by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and for the FIC Interim Session chaired by the Prime Minister of the RoK, a working meeting of the Co-Chairs of the Working Group on Events Preparation was held within the framework of the Foreign Investors’ Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

On the Kazakhstani side, the meeting was attended by Mr. Zhaslan Madiyev, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as:

• Bakhtiyar Mukhametkaliyev – Vice Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

• Yevgeniy Kim – Deputy Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

• Daniyar Meirbekov – Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Investment of the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The foreign side was represented by:

• Huseyin Ozhan – Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Kazakhstan Foreign Investors’ Council Association, Managing Director for Central Asia and Mongolia at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development;

• Zhanna Baidasheva – Director of the Kazakhstan Foreign Investors’ Council Association

• as well as representatives of Marubeni, Baker McKenzie, Knauf, Wabtec Corporation, CNPC, Cameco, Shell, ExxonMobil, TAV Airports Holding, INPEX North Caspian Sea Ltd., KPMG, RUSAL and others.

During the meeting, the participants discussed preparations for the 38th Plenary Session of the Foreign Investors’ Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The parties emphasized the importance of joint preparations for the 38th Plenary Session of the Foreign Investors’ Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan by government authorities and the foreign business community, and expressed their readiness for further cooperation to ensure the high-quality organization and substantive content of the session aimed at improving the investment climate and supporting the sustainable development of Digital Kazakhstan.