Nadezhda Tokayeva

Nadezhda Davydovna Tokayeva (Hebrew: נאדז'דה טוקאיבה; Kazakh: Надежда Давыдқызы Токаева, romanized: Nadejda Davydqyzy Tokaeva; born 27 September 1957) is a Kazakh public figure, who was the First Lady of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2020, as the former wife of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.[1]

Nadezhda Tokayeva
נאדז'דה טוקאיבה
2nd First Lady of Kazakhstan
In role
20 March 2019 – 7 October 2020
PresidentKassym-Jomart Tokayev
Preceded bySara Nazarbayeva
Succeeded byVacant
Personal details
Born (1957-09-27) 27 September 1957
Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Spouse
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(m. 1980; div. 2020)​
Children2

Early life and education

Her father and mother are from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (of Soviet-Jewish descent). An ethnic Ashkenazi Jew, 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 to 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 a daughter, 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]

See also

References
  1. "Касым-Жомарт Токаев - биография, информация, личная жизнь, фото, видео". stuki-druki.com.
  2. "Касым-Жомарт Токаев стал вторым президентом Республики Казахстан 20 марта 2019 года". 22 March 2019.
  3. Aktobe Times
  4. "Президент Республики Казахстан — Официальный сайт Президента Республики Казахстан". Akorda.kz. Archived from the original on 2019-03-29. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  5. "The President". Akorda. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  6. "Жена, сын и отец президента Токаева - кто они?".
  7. "Токаева Надежда Давыдовна: какова биография, возраст, фото, соцсети?". 22 March 2019.
  8. "Токаева Надежда Давыдовна: какова биография, возраст, фото, соцсети?". Культурная Москва. 21 March 2019.
  9. Vlast (Kazakhstan), OCCRP and. "The Offshore Secrets of Kazakhstan's President Tokayev". Retrieved 2022-02-21.


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