| Umirzak Shukeyev is trying to clean up some of the most opaque corporations in one of the world’s most inscrutable countries. It is not a job for the faint-hearted. Mr Shukeyev is head of Samruk-Kazyna, the sovereign wealth fund of Kazakhstan – a sprawling empire of state-owned companies that symbolises the oil-fuelled power of the Kazakh state.
Over lamb kebab in the Kazakh capital, Astana, the former regional governor admits he is a fairly recent convert to western capitalist values. “At the start I didn’t really understand corporate governance,” he admits. “I do now.”..............................................Full Article: Source
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