Nadezhda Tokayeva

Nadezhda Davydovna Tokayeva (Russian: Надежда Давыдовна Токаева, Kazakh: Надежда Давыдқызы Токаева, romanized: Nadejda Davydqyzy Tokaeva; born 1957) was the First Lady of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2020, as the former wife of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.[1]

Nadezhda Tokayeva
2nd First Lady of Kazakhstan
In role
20 March 2019  2020
PresidentKassym-Jomart Tokayev
Preceded bySara Nazarbayeva
Succeeded byVacant
Personal details
Born (1957-09-27) 27 September 1957
Nizhny Tagil, USSR
Now Russia
Spouse(s)
(m. 1980; .div 2020)
Children1

Early life and education

Tokayeva was born in Nizhny Tagil in Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast.[2] She graduated from the Moscow State Institute for History and Archives.

Career

From 2011-2012 she was the honorary president of the United Nations Women's Guild in Geneva.[3]

In March 2019, she assumed the role of first lady when her husband’s predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigned after 29 years in power.[4]

Personal life

Tokayeva is divorced from Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.[5] Together with her husband, she has a son, Timur (born 15 February 1984) and Manira (born 7 October 1987).[6][7][8]

In 1998, she and her son Timur opened a Credit Suisse bank account, even though she qualified as a politically exposed person, which at its height in 2005 contained 1.5 million US$. After her husband became director-general of the United Nations’ Geneva office, the account was closed in 2012, and the family opened offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands, with $5 million in assets plus properties in Geneva and Moscow at $7.7 million.[9]

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