The National ESG Club Elects a New Chairman

On November 2, an extraordinary meeting of the co-founders of the National ESG Club was held, dedicated to the re-election of the ESG Club Chairman.

According to the Club’s regulations, the Chairman is elected from among the co-founders for a term of one year. Nurlan Kusainovich Rakhmetov, Deputy Chairman of the “National Union for Sustainable Development ESG” Association, was nominated for the position of Chairman.

The meeting’s moderator, Rustam Yakupbayev, Managing Partner of GPI Group, noted:

“Nurlan Kusainovich Rakhmetov is a well-known figure with more than 20 years of experience in the state and quasi-state sectors of Kazakhstan: over the years he has served on the Boards of Directors of KazMunayGas National Company JSC, Samruk-Energy JSC, Kazpost JSC, and others. As a consultant, he has participated in several World Bank projects related to the establishment of state holdings. As co-founders of the Club, we support Nurlan Kusainovich’s candidacy.”

Meeting participants thanked the Club’s first Chairman, Aidar Kazybayev, for his work and wished him success in his future projects. Nurlan Rakhmetov’s candidacy was unanimously supported by meeting participants and approved as Chairman for a term of one year.

“The Club, as an association, must be preserved and its development continued. It is largely thanks to the coordination and unity of the Club’s core group of like-minded members that sustainable development ideas have begun to take root in Kazakhstani business and society. The flagship companies that are members of the Club have become an example of just how important and necessary — and now even inevitable — it is to move toward the ESG agenda,” noted Nurlan Rakhmetov.

The new Chairman also proposed intensifying the work of the Club’s committees and establishing coordination among the co-founders, the international community, and the Sustainable Development Council under the “Atameken” National Chamber of Entrepreneurs for more organized work on the agenda.

During the meeting, proposals and questions from the Club’s co-founders were heard. Participants also supported the Chairman’s initiative to create a working group to develop the Club’s Strategy for the next three years.

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Representatives of the following organizations attended the meeting: KazMunayGas National Company JSC, Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, Altynalmas JSC, Otbasy Bank JSC, Eurasian Group LLP, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange JSC, Polymetal Eurasia LLP, Development Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, Ernst & Young Advisory LLP, GPI-Lab LLP, Damu Entrepreneurship Development Fund JSC, Akyl-Kenes LLP, National Union for Sustainable Development ESG Association, and Green Technology Hub Limited.