Shamshidin Alzhan Smayiluly is a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan, born on 27 January 1980. From 1996 to 2001, he studied at Kazakh National Agrarian University and obtained a degree in animal husbandry (animal husbandry management). From 2002 to 2004, he studied at the Faculty of Economics and Law and obtained a degree in economics (economist-financier). From 2001 to 2004, he pursued postgraduate studies at Kazakh National Agrarian University, specializing in private animal husbandry and animal-product production technologies. From 2015 to 2018, he pursued doctoral studies at the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution (All-Russian Research Institute of Animal Husbandry), specializing in animal selection, breeding, genetics and biotechnology. Since December 2018, he has served as Vice Chairman of the Board and Rector / Vice-Rector for Science of Zhangirkhan West Kazakhstan Agrarian and Technical University, coordinating R&D activities and international cooperation.

His career spans higher-education administration, research management and agricultural production. From September 2017 to January 2019, he served as General Director of the Scientific Innovation Center for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, responsible for overall management. From January 2012 to January 2017, he was Chairman of the Board of Asyl Tulik Republican Livestock Breeding Center JSC, responsible for the overall management of the breeding center. From August 2008 to January 2012, he served as Manager for the Development of Scientific and Technical Activities at KazAgroInnovation JSC, coordinating scientific activities at subordinate research institutes. He has published more than 75 scientific works on animal breeding, including dairy and beef cattle breeding and horse breeding, received one preliminary patent and nine utility model patents, and co-authored publications on multiple cattle and horse breeds.

The expert has received several honors, including a Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2011), the 25th Anniversary of Independence Medal (2016), the Outstanding Contribution to Animal Husbandry honorary badge (2018), the 30th Anniversary of Independence Medal (2021), the Contribution to the Development of Science badge (2023), and the Labor Honor Medal of the Agricultural Workers’ Union (2012, 2014 and 2016). For professional development, he studied ultrasonic evaluation of beef marbling at the Ultrainsight laboratory in the United States (2019), trained in innovative animal-husbandry technologies at the All-Russian Research Institute of Animal Husbandry in Russia (2020), and trained in innovative methods for dairy and meat production at the Federal Scientific Center for Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2022). He also has a background in economics, previously served as Chief Specialist at the Intellectual Property Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and has extensive experience in research management and policy development.