Founder and Chairwoman of BATT Invest. Sultana Alfiya ASKAR ABULKHAIR is one of the most prominent business women in Kazakhstan who started her own large-scale business activities more than 30 years ago. The family title of Sultana was restored in 2021, and has been duly recognized in the United Kingdom where Sultana Askar Abulkhair has been living for over 20 years. Sultana Askar Abulkhair graduated from Kazakh Economics University in Almaty with a degree in Economics. With her husband, Timur Kuanyshev, she set up a conglomerate, BATT Corporation, an investment holding covering various sectors, including natural resources, construction and real estate development, banking and financial services, and the food industry. In a few years, it had grown into the largest private agricultural company in Kazakhstan. In August 2021, BATT Corporation evolved and re-branded to BATT Invest company, a controlling parent company operating its subsidiaries in the Republic of Kazakhstan and outside. Sultana Askar Abulkhair takes an active and important role in the investment and operational activities of the company, being both a founder and acting as Chairwoman of BATT Invest company. From 2014 to 2018 Sultana Askar Abulkhair was an Advisor to the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan within his Chairmanship of the Board of the Eurasian Development Bank (including 6 member-states Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan). Sultana Askar Abulkhair has become a Patron of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in 2019, and has also been asked to join the British- Kazakh Society as a business member to further contribute to developing Kazakhstan-UK bilateral collaboration in the field of business, culture and education. Since autumn 2022 has become a Member of the Board of Louis Dreyfus Fondation.
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