Aigul Kussaliyeva

Director of Sustainable Development, AIFC Authority Advisor, AIFC Green Finance Centre Lead, Secretariat of Central Asia Chapter of Green Investment Principles for BRI Aigul is a professional with over than 13 years of success in strategy, statistics, and finance. Prior to her recent appointment as Director of Sustainable Development at AIFC Authority she has spent 7 years in various positions with AIFC (Director of Green Finance Intelligence, Managing Director, Deputy CEO of AIFC Green Finance Centre) working on the concept of green financial system of Kazakhstan. Previously, she worked on the national accounts at the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan. Aigul and her team was behind the development of national green taxonomy of Kazakhstan and relevant legislation on the subsidy scheme for green projects. She was also involved in development of model taxonomy of green projects of Eurasian Economic Union which was adopted in Dec 2022. As a step to implement the green finance policies in banking sector of Kazakhstan Aigul was a part of the team which successfully developed and submitted the II Readiness proposal of Kazakhstan to GCF. She is leading the secretariat of the GIP regional chapter in Central Asia since 2021 focused on promotion of green investment principles among the stakeholders in wider region. She graduated from KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Seoul, Korea with degree in public policy. In 2020 she completed the Business Management Certificate program in Finance from UC San Diego Extension. She speaks Kazakh, English and Russian.