AlmaU hosted a guest meeting with Usen Suleimen

What does a young man from Kazakhstan need at the initial stage of his career path? What goals need to be set? What attitude to life you need to have in order to achieve heights in your career and on the path of personal growth? Usen Suleimen answered these questions and shared his experience.

On December 19, 2018 in AlmaU there was a guest meeting with Usen Suleimen, the ambassador of Kazakhstan in Singapore and New Zealand. Usen Suleimen has built a good career in the field of diplomacy and has significant experience in the field of science and education. The guest meeting was attended by the university top management, staff and students studying regional studies.

Usen Suleimen can justifiably be called “self-made”. He started his way from the position of third secretary of the Protocol Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, then he worked as the second and first secretary. Moving up the career ladder, Usen Suleimen became the head of the international organizations section of the Multilateral Cooperation Department of MFA of RK. After that, he made a short break - engaged in teaching, part-time becoming a corporate development director at KIMEP University under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Returning to the diplomatic service, Usen Suleimen took the post of adviser - deputy head of the mission for political and cultural affairs of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Turkmenistan, also worked at the embassy in Iran, was general consul of Kazakhstan in Hong Kong and Macao (PRC), then counselor to Vienna, after which he became ambassador of special assignments. And having already passed all the stages necessary for a diplomat, Usen Suleimen became the ambassador of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

During the meeting, Usen Suleimen told interesting things about the work of a diplomat and about life in Singapore. He also shared his thoughts on the art of management, expressed a personal position on the questions asked by students, and made interesting analogies between regional and international politics.

“Knowledge is the most important managerial skill for both the diplomat and the future manager. You know, Soviet education was the best in the world. I am grateful to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for making it necessary to study Marxism, feminism, philosophy, the laws of general development, regardless of the profile of education. Western education is narrow focused, ” said Usen Suleimen.

At the end of his speech, Usen Sulemen answered questions of the audience, and also provided videos of his meeting with the ambassadors of New Zealand to the audience’s attention and told about the peculiarities of their culture.