[2] She is the second richest person in Kazakhstan, with a fortune estimated to be around $3.8 billion.
[3] During the 2022 Kazakh protests, she lost $200 million in fortune according to Forbes.
[4] Nazarbayeva was born in Temirtau, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union.
In 2007, she defended her doctoral dissertation on "Methodological foundations of the management of the educational system of international schools."
In 2009, she heads the National Education Fund named after Nursultan Nazarbayev.