Akyl Toktobaev

Akyl Toktobaevich Toktobaev is the Minister of Natural Resources, Ecology and Technical Supervision of the Kyrgyz Republic, a post he has held since 16 February 2026. He was born on 28 June 1987 in the village of Teploklyuchenka, Ak-Suu district, Issyk-Kul region. He is a Kyrgyz national and a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic, and holds the rank of Civil Service Advisor, 1st Class.

He graduated from the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University in 2009 as an economist specialising in the global economy. In 2015 he completed a Master’s degree in jurisprudence at the Kyrgyz State Law Academy.

He began his career in 2010 in the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic, working as a consultant and later as an expert in committees covering agrarian policy, land and water resources, ecology, regional development and local self-government. He worked there until 2016.

From 2016 to 2017 he moved to the Ministry of Economy. He first headed the Subsoil Use Policy Department and then the Department of Non-Tariff Regulation and Export Control. He then returned to parliament, serving from 2017 to 2020 as Head of the Department of the Zhogorku Kenesh Committee on the Fuel and Energy Complex and Subsoil Use.

In 2020 he became Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use. In 2021 he served as Deputy Director of the State Agency for Geology and Subsoil Use under the Ministry of Energy and Industry. He then joined the board of Kyrgyzaltyn OJSC as Deputy Chairman for economics, finance and investment, and from October 2021 to October 2022 directed its Kyrgyz Seaside Sanatorium branch.

From August 2023 to March 2025 he was a Board Member and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Altynken LLC. He then served as Director of the State Enterprise Kyrgyzgeology from March 2025 until his appointment as Minister in February 2026.