Roman Vasilievich Sklyar (russian: Роман Васильевич Скляр; kk, Роман Васильевич Скляр, ; born 8 May 1971) is a Kazakhstani politician and economist who is serving as the First Deputy Prime Minister since January 2022. Sklyar was the deputy akim of

Pavlodar Pavlodar ( ; ) is a city in northeastern Kazakhstan and the capital of Pavlodar Region. It is located 450 km northeast of the national capital Astana and 405 km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk along the Irtysh River. , the cit ...

from 2005 to 2006, deputy and first deputy akim of

Pavlodar Region Pavlodar Region ( kk, Павлодар облысы, translit=Pavlodar oblysy; russian: Павлодарская область, translit=Pavlodarskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. The population of the region was and ; the latest official ...

from 2008 to 2011, Vice Minister of Transport and Communications from 2011 to 2013, member of Mazhilis and Vice Minister of the National Economy in 2016, Vice and First Vice Minister for Investment and Development from 2016 to 2019, and Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development in 2019.

Biography

Early life and education

Sklyar was born in the city of

. He graduated from the Pavlodar State University with a degree in Civil Engineering, Moscow Institute of Modern Business with a degree in Economics and the Kazakh Institute of Law and International Relations.

Career

He began his career in 1989 as a fitter and installer at the Ekibastuzugleavtomatika MNU, and later worked as a safety engineer at Vakhinvest JV and in various commercial structures. From 2005 to 2006, Sklyar held the posts of chief of staff, deputy akim of Pavlodar. From 2006 to 2007 he worked as head of the infrastructure development department of the apparatus of the akim of Astana. From 2007, he worked as the Director of the Department of Energy and Public Utilities of the city of Astana. From 2008 to 2011, he held the posts of deputy and first deputy akim of

. In May 2011, Sklyar became the Vice Minister of Transport and Communications. From 2014 to 2016 he worked as vice president of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy JSC. In 20 March 2016 elections, Sklyar was elected to the Mazhilis from the

Nur Otan Amanat (), previously known as Nur Otan () until 2022, is a big tent political party in Kazakhstan. Being the largest to date, it has been the ruling party of the country from 1999, with a membership claiming to be of over 762,000 people in 2007. ...

party list where he served as Chairman of the Committee on Economic Reform and Regional Development. From May to December 2016 he worked as Vice Minister of the National Economy. On 23 December 2016, Sklyar became the Vice Minister for Investment and Development. He was then the First Vice Minister from 18 January 2018. After Sagintayev's government was dismissed on 21 February 2019, Sklyar became the Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development on 25 February under PM

Askar Mamin Asqar Uzaqbaiuly Mamin ( kk, Асқар Ұзақбайұлы Мамин, Asqar Ūzaqbaiūly Mamin, ; born 23 October 1965) is a Kazakh politician and economist who served as the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2022, resigning due to pre ...

. On 18 September 2019, he was appointed as the

Deputy Prime Minister A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some countries, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president, ...

References

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