Zhanat Abdugalimov was appointed as a Director of the Aviation Personnel Licensing Department in August 2020. Previously, he held the position of Senior Aviation Inspector in the Department of Quality Control and Analytical Work on Flight Safety of JSC “Aviation Administration of Kazakhstan”.

In 2010 he received a Bachelor's degree in Transport with honors from Pavlodar State University named after S. Toraigyrova. Zhanat is a graduate of the Bolashak international scholarship. He completed Master's Degree with distinction in International Transport from Cardiff University in the UK in 2015. 

Since April 2011, he has worked as an expert, chief expert and senior state aviation inspector for dangerous goods in various divisions of the Civil Aviation Committee. He worked as the National Continuous Monitoring Coordinator with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) under the ICAO Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme. Prior to joining the JSC “Aviation Administration of Kazakhstan” he was the Head of the Division of state policy in civil aviation fieldof the Civil Aviation Committee.