Erlan Kenjegali Sagadiev (Kazakh: Ерлан Кенжеғалиұлы Сағадиев, Erlan Kenjeğaliūly Sağadiev; born 29 September 1966) is a Kazakh politician and economist who served as a Minister of Education and Science from 10 February 2016 to 25 February 2019.
In 1992, he began working in Washington, D.C. as an analysis of the state of agriculture at the Department of the World Bank, curator of the countries of Eastern Europe and CIS.
On 7 February 2014, he was appointed as a Vice Minister of Industry and New Technologies where he served the post until 13 August 2014, when Sağadiev was transferred the post of Vice Minister for Investments and Development continuing to work in the government until he left on 10 July 2015.
[2][3][4][5] Sagadiev returned to work on 10 February 2016, when by the Decree of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, he was appointed as Minister of Education and Science.
[9] After stepping down from the Ministry, Sağadiev joined Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative program in 2019.