Rauan Kenzhekhanuly

Template:Infobox person Rauan Kenzhekhanuly (born 1 May 1979) is a Kazakh man who was named the first Wikipedian of the Year in August 2011 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales at Wikimania.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Previously, he served as the first secretary at Kazakhstan's Russian embassy, as well as the National TV Agency's Moscow bureau chief.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2010, he traveled to the United States to do a one-year fellowship at Harvard University, where, that fall, he first became interested in editing Wikipedia when he took the class “Media, Politics, and Power in the Digital Age”.<ref name=hks>Template:Cite web</ref> He later founded the nonprofit organization WikiBilim, which aims to expand the availability of free Kazakh-language information on the Internet.<ref name=hks/> In 2014, he was named deputy governor of the Kyzylorda Region.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He is also the founding director of the Eurasian Council on Foreign Affairs, which was formally established on 12 November 2014<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> with a grant from the Kazakh government.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>