Head of the Office of Entrepreneurship and Investment in Almaty has been appointed

Mukhit Azirbayev was born in Almaty, a graduate of the T. Ryskulov Kazakh Economic University. He has a big experience in the private sector. He worked as the general director of the” Kuat-Agro” agro-holding company, chairman of the Supervisory Board of Global Building Contract LLP, in various positions at ABN AMRO Bank and Kazkommertsbank JSC. Since 2017 - Chairman of the Board of the social and entrepreneurial corporation "Almaty".

The new head of the department has had a number of tasks to improve the sustainability and competitiveness of the Almaty economy, including by increasing the share of SMEs, attracting investments and diversifying the sectors of the economy.

Among them are such areas as providing access and saturation of the domestic market with socially important food products for the social strata of the population, attracting investment in high-tech and export-oriented projects.

In addition, the city’s governor instructed to strengthen the work in support of the development of entrepreneurial activity through the realization of measures to improve the investment climate. These include reducing administrative barriers, providing access to information, increasing the availability of financial resources for business, ensuring the protection of investors' rights, introducing digital technologies for the transparency of the activities of authorized bodies, etc.