Ambassador Yerzhan Mukash (Kazakh national) is ECO Deputy Secretary General (since February 2026) in charge of Tourism Directorate; Project Management Section; Judicial and Parliamentary Coordination and ECO Advocacy Programme for Afghanistan Section.
Ambassador YERZHAN MUKASH
Born: 28 October 1965
Professional Career
• Since February 2026 – Deputy Secretary General, Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)
• 2024 – 2025 – Managing Director, Otandastar Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• 2022 – 2023 – Deputy Secretary General, Organization of Turkic States
• 2021 – 2022 – Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• 2019 – 2021 – Director, Department for Asia, the Near and Middle East, and Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 2014 – 2019 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Sultanate of Oman
• 2012 – 2014 – Deputy Head, Center for Foreign Policy, Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• 2011 – 2012 – Director, Department for Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and Turkey, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Since 1992 – Diplomatic service in the system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (career diplomat).