Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov (Kazakh: Ержан Қалиұлы Досмұхамедов, Erjan Qaliūly Dosmūhamedov) is a Kazakhstani politician and former head of the Atameken National Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers of Kazakhstan.
Having founded his opposition political party "Atameken" and falling out of favor with the corrupt ruling elite, he now lives in London.
[2] After earning his doctorate degree at Oxford, he spent a year as an academic intern at Yale's law program.
[In 1992-1996] Dosmukhamedov served as a senior legal consultant at the first post-independence Parliament of Kazakhstan and in the presidential administration as an assistant and later chief of staff to the vice-president Erik Asanbayev and supervised KIMEP under the president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Dosmukhamedov was recently in the news due to his participation in a sting operation led by The Times which caught U.S. lobbyist Stephen Payne offering access to top U.S. officials in exchange for a private donation to the George W. Bush Presidential Library.