JSC National Atomic Company "Kazatomprom" announced that the Company's Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Mr. Yerzhan Mukanov as Chair of the company's Management Board. Mr. Mukanov, who has been acting CEO since July and Chief Operations Officer since March 2022, brings a great deal of expertise to his new position, having years of experience within the nuclear industry. He has served in numerous nuclear industry roles over his 23-year career, starting as an engineer of the laboratory of special methods of enrichment and hydrometallurgy at the Institute of Metallurgy and Enrichment under the Republic of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, joining the Kazatomprom Group in 2006 first as a process engineer at JV KATCO LLP, then as production development coordinator at AREVA Mines, before moving through senior executive positions in Kazatomprom's subsidiaries and affiliates including JV KATCO LLP, Kazatomprom-SaUran LLP, Karatau LLP and Semizbay-U LLP.