Ashimjan Suleimenovich Akhmetov (Kazakh: Әшімжан Сүлейменұлы Ахметов, Russian: Ашимжан Сулейменович Ахметов;[1] born 23 February 1950 in Tole Bi in the Shu District, died 15 September 2012) was a Kazakh scientist, lawyer, engineer, and politician.

Ashimjan Akhmetov was born on 23 February 1950 in the village of Tole Bi, Shu District, Jambyl Region, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

[3] In 1973,[4] he graduated with honors from the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology,[5] earning a degree as a chemical engineer-technologist.

In 2001, he received the title of academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Higher School of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From 1978, he held positions as a senior lecturer, associate professor, head of the "Building Materials and Chemistry" department, dean of the General Engineering Faculty, vice-rector, and secretary of the party committee at the Jambyl Institute of Hydromelioration and Construction.

[4] On 30 January 1996, he was elected a deputy of the I session of the Mäjilis,[6] where he served as chairman of the Committee on Ecology and Environmental Management.

From April 2006, he served as the rector of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

He was a member of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan and the Council for Cooperation in the Field of Education of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

[8] The farewell ceremony took place at the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan in Almaty, attended by deputies of parliament, government members, rectors of Kazakh universities, professors, and lecturers of Taraz State University, as well as prominent figures from science and politics.