Chief of informatization department at President's Executive Office named in Kazakhstan

By the presidential decree Yerzhan Seitkulov has been appointed chief of the department for informatization and information resources protection at the President’s Executive Office, El.kz cites Akorda.  

Born on April 4 ,1979, Yerzhan Seitkulov is a graduate of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State Lomonosov University.

He is known as a Kazakh mathematician and information security specialist, and is a professor and director of a research institute at the Gumilyov Eurasian National University.

He was also involved in development of Cyber Shield of Kazakhstan concept and was a freelance advisor to the minister of defense and aerospace industry of Kazakhstan. He has published more than 40 scientific papers in his field.