Marat Sarsembaev

Sarsembaev is a member of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan, appointed by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2007. Sarsembaev was born in the village of Ekpendy, Andreevsky district (now Alakolsky), Taldy-Kurgan (now Almaty) region in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan).

He has won many international awards and competitions, including a Fulbright Award as a Fulbright Research Scholar (named after J. William Fulbright). In this capacity he was in the USA for 10 months in 1997 "conducting research on the formation of private property law in the U.S. and other countries for a project on the problems of property law in domestic and international law" according to Indiana Law Annotated.

He was President of the Association of educational institutions of the republic from 1996 to 2001. He lectured in the MSIIR in 1977, university of Rennes, in 1980, Villanova university in 1994, Indiana University (USA) in 1997, Kabul university (Afghanistan) in 1985–1987: in all at 10 domestic and 6 foreign universities.

He is the winner of the Soros-Kazakhstan Fund which is awarded for the high school textbook International law being recognized as the best among 120 textbooks sent to the republican competition of 1995. The competition was held with the assistance of the Ministry of еducation and science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From 1973 to 2000 he was the dean of the faculty of law and head of international law at the Kazakhstan National University. He was the rector of Daneker University, director of, and professor at, the Law institute of the L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. He worked as the head of Department for International Relations of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Astana city. At present he is a member of CEC of the Republic of Kazakhstan as a political office employee.

Sarsembaev finished Andreevsky Russian high school in 1965. Sarsembayev graduated from the faculty of English language of Almaty Institute of foreign languages (now the Kazakh university of international relations and world languages) in 1969 with honours. In 1973 he graduated from the faculty of law of the Kazakh state university (now the Kazakh national university) with honours. He gained his doctorate in 1994 with a thesis on the theme of International law issues in the "History of Kazakhstan and Central Asia (from the 15th century to the present)" at the Institute of State and Law at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russian Federation. In 2012, he became a member of the UN Human Rights Committee.

He is the winner of a range international awards Marat Aldangaruly Sarsembaev (Kazakh: Марат Алдоңғарұлы Сәрсембаев, born December 15, 1947) is a Kazakh doctor of law and professor.