Oraz Aliuly Jandosov (, Oraz Aliūly Jandosov; born 26 October 1961) is a Kazakh politician and businessman. He was the chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan from 1996 to 1998, First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from February 1998 to January 1999, Minister of Finance from January to October 1999, Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from December 2000 to November 2001, assistant to the President of Kazakhstan from January to June 2003, chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Regulation of Natural Monopolies and Protection of Competition from June 2003 to July 2004. Family and personal life Early life and education Jandosov was born in the city of Alma-Ata (now Almaty). In 1983, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University as a cybernetic economist. Family His father Ali Jandosov (born 1935) was a historian while his mother Klavdiya Pishchulina (born 1934) was a historian-orientalist, candidate of historical sciences, leading specialist in the history of medieval Kazakhstan. Jandosov is the grandson of Oraz Jandosov (1899–1935) who was a People's Commissar that was executed under Stalin. He is married and has two daughters and a son. Early career From 1987, Jandosov worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. From 1991 to 1992, he served as a consultant, and the head of the department of the apparatus of the Supreme Economic Council under the President of Kazakhstan. From 1992 to 1994, Jandosov was the First Deputy Chairman of the National Agency for Foreign Investment under the Ministry of Economy, First Deputy Minister of Economy and the chairman of the National Agency for Foreign Investment under the Ministry of Economy. In January 1994, he became the First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Kazakhstan. Jandosov became its chairman in January 1996 and while serving that position, he was a member of the Supreme Economic Council under the President of Kazakhstan from February until November 1997. Political career On 20 February 1998, Jandosov was appointed as the First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan and the chairman of the State Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Investments. He served that position until 22 January 1999, when he was appointed as the Minister of Finance. After the government was dismissed on 1 October 1999, Jandosov became the president of KEGOC