Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov graduated with distinction from St Petersburg University Law Faculty, then earned an Master degree in law in the United States. After earning his doctorate degree at Oxford, he spent a year as an academic intern at Yale University law school.
From 1999 to 2002 he was a fellow and member of the law faculty of the University of Oxford, president of The Oxford Banking Forum. From 2002 to 2003 he was a professor and dean of the law faculty at the Kazakh-American University. He has served as an adviser to the President of the Kazakhstani National Petroleum Company “KazMunaiGaz”.
[In 1992-1996] Dosmukhamedov served as a senior legal consultant at the first post-independence Parliament of Kazakhstan and in the presidential administration as an assistant and later chief of staff to the Vice-President of Kazakhstan and supervised the Kazakhstan Institute for Management and Economics (KIMEP) under the President of Kazakhstan. He also served as Minister and Deputy Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Germany. He has received academic scholarships from the United States Congress and the Soros Foundation.
Dr. Dosmukhamedov published a book on foreign direct investment in the transitional economies [by Palgrave/Macmillan publishers] which was awarded a Paul Frankel Prize by the British Institute of Petroleum, “ATAMEKEN – Building Democracy in Kazakhstan”, “Kazakhstan’s Assassinated Democracy” and more than 100 articles in the academic and socio-political magazines and newspapers.
