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'''Yerzhan Kalievich Dosmukhamedov''' ([[Kazakh language|Kazakh]]: Ержан Қалиұлы Досмұхамедов [[Russian language|Russian]]: Ержан Калиевич Досмухамедов) is a [[Kazakhs|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.<ref>{{cite news
| last = Penketh
| first = Anne
| title = After Nazarbayev: The dictator, his daughter, and a dynasty at war
| publisher = The Independent
| date = May 30, 2007
| url = http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/after-nazarbayev-the-dictator-his-daughter-and-a-dynasty-at-war-450971.html
| accessdate = 2008-07-26}}</ref>

== Biography ==

Dosmukhamedov graduated with distinction from [[St. Petersburg State University law faculty]], then earned an [[Masters degree|MA]] in law in the United States.<ref name=atameken>{{ru icon}} [http://www.souz-atameken.kz/rus/persons/Dosmuhamedov/ Персоны - Ержан Калиевич Досмухамедов] Atameken</ref> After earning his doctorate degree at [[Oxford]], he spent a year as an academic intern at [[Yale University|Yale's]] law program.

From 1999 to 2002, he was a fellow and member of the law faculty of the University of Oxford, president of The Oxford banking forum. From 2002 to 2003 he was a professor and dean of the law department at the Kazakh-American University. He worked at [[KazMunaiGaz]], and has served as an adviser to [[Timur Kulibayev]].

[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]]. He also served as Minister and Deputy Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Germany. He has received academic grants from the [[United States Congress]] and the [[Soros Foundation]].<ref name=atameken/>

Dosmukhamedov published a book on foreign direct investment in the transitional economies [by Palgrave/Macmillan publishers] which was awarded a Paul Frankel Prize by the British Institute of Petroleum and ''"ATAMEKEN - Building Democracy in Kazakhstan".''

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 (lobbyist)|Stephen Payne]] offering access to top U.S. officials in exchange for a private donation to the [[George W. Bush Presidential Library]].<ref>{{cite news
| last = Foggo
| first = Daniel
| title = President George W Bush lobbyist in ‘cash for access’ row
| publisher = [[The Times]]
| date = July 13, 2008
| url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4322684.ece
| accessdate = 2008-07-26 | location=London}}</ref> Payne would sometimes refer to Dosmukhamedov as "Eric Dos".<ref name=times3>{{cite news
| last = Foggo
| first = Daniel
|author2=Steven Swinford
| title = Stephen Payne: a hotshot lobbyist who can get you into White House
| publisher = [[The Times]]
| date = July 13, 2008
| url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4322719.ece
| accessdate = 2008-07-26 | location=London}}</ref>

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