Nadezhda Davydovna Tokayeva (Hebrew: נאדז'דה טוקאיבה; Kazakh: Надежда Давыдқызы Токаева, romanized: Nadejda Davydqyzy Tokaeva; born 27 September 1958) is a Kazakh public figure who served as the First Lady of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2020, as the former wife of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.[1]
She served as the honorary president of the United Nations Women's Guild in Geneva from 2011 to 2012.[3]
In March 2019, she assumed the role of first lady when her husband's predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigned after 29 years in power.[4]
Personal life
Tokayeva is divorced[when?] from Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.[5] Together with her husband, she has a son, Timur (born 15 February 1984).[6][7][8]
In 1998, she and her son Timur opened a Credit Suisse bank account, even though she qualified as a politically exposed person, which at its height in 2005 contained 1.5 million US$. After her husband became director-general of the United Nations’ Geneva office, the account was closed in 2012, and the family opened offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands, with $5 million in assets plus properties in Geneva and Moscow at $7.7 million.[9]
