Bolat Nurgaliyev

Bolat Nurgaliyev
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Israel and Cyprus
In office 2012 – September 2014
Preceded by	Galym Orazbakov
Succeeded by	Doulat Kuanyshev
Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
In office 1 January 2007 – 31 December 2009
Preceded by	Zhang Deguang (as Executive Secretary)
Succeeded by	Muratbek Imanaliyev
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Japan
In office 2003–2006
Preceded by	Yerlan Baudarbek-Kozhataev (as chargé d'affaires ad interim)
Succeeded by	Dinara Zheldybayeva (as chargée d'affaires ad interim)
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to South Korea
In office 2001–2003
Preceded by	Tulegen Zhukeev
Succeeded by	Darkhan Berdaliev
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States, Canada and Mexico
In office 1996–2000
Preceded by	Tuleutai Suleimenov
Succeeded by	Kanat Saudabayev
Personal details
Born	(1951-07-25) 25 July 1951 Blagodatnoye, Erkenshilik Raion, Akmolin Oblast, Kazakh SSR, USSR
Alma mater	Tselinograd State Pedagogical Institute

Bolat Kabdylkhamituly Nurgaliyev (Kazakh: Болат Қабдылхамитұлы Нұрғалиев, Bolat Qabdylhamitūly Nūrğaliev; born July 25, 1951) is a Kazakh diplomat and the current Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for protracted conflicts.

Nurgaliyev studied foreign languages at the Tselinograd State Pedagogical Institute. He joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry, and served from 1980 to 1992 throughout South Asia. He then was the director of the Department of International Security and Arms Control Department of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry for four years, until he was appointed Ambassador to the United States in 1996. In 2001, he became Kazakhstan's ambassador to South Korea, and in 2003 the ambassador to Japan. He served as Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2009. Shortly after taking office, Nurgaliyev commented that "The most important task for the SCO now is to further crackdown on terrorism, separatism and extremism". He was appointed as the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for protracted conflicts for the 2010 Kazakhstani Chairmanship of the OSCE.