Aslan Bäkenūly Särınjıpov (Kazakh: Аслан Бәкенұлы Сәрінжіпов, Aslan Bäkenūly Särınjıpov; born 17 April 1974) is a Kazakh politician and economist who served as Minister of Education and Science from 2 September 2013 to 10 February 2016.
Särınjıpov is an international economist, candidate of economic sciences, and has a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Pennsylvania.
[1] Särınjıpov served as an assistant to the Executive Committee of the Interstate Council of Central Asia from 1996.
From 1998 to 2002, he was an attaché for Economic Affairs at the Kazakh Embassy in Washington, D.C. until becoming the coordinator of the World Bank projects in Central Asia in the field of infrastructure, financial markets and education, where he participated in the development of the State Program for the Development of Education in Kazakhstan.
From 2009, he served as chairman of the Executive Board of the autonomous organization of Nazarbayev University and was associate professor at the School of Education at the faculty.