Education
Born July 25, 1951, Nurgaliyev studied foreign languages at the State Pedagogical Institute in Tselinograd (now Astana).
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Career
He joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry, and served from 1980-1992 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 of Korea, and in 2003 the ambassador to Japan.
He was appointed Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on January 1, 2007.
He was appointed as the Special Representative of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Chairperson-in-Office for protracted conflicts for the 2010 Kazakhstani Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Shortly after taking office, Nurgaliyev commented that "The most important task for the SCO now is to further crackdown on terrorism, separatism and extremism".
