Zhatkanbaev Yerzhan Baiguzhaevich, was born on January 31, 1944 in the village of Bes Kainar, Talgar district of Almaty region. In 1961 I graduated from high school, and the Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov in 1968, and then in 1968-1971 Yershan studied at the postgraduate course of the same faculty. In 1979 I defended the candidate's thesis and in 1996 the doctoral dissertation at Moscow State University and the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan respectively. Back in 1971 I joined the Almaty branch of the Dzhambul Technological Institute of Consumer Goods and Food Industry as an assistant. From 1979 to 1984 I worked at the Ministry of Higher Education of the Kazakh SSR. In 1984 I was transferred to the Faculty of Philosophy and Economics at KazNU named after al Farabi, where I worked as a senior lecturer, an assistant professor, a Deputy Head Department, a Head Department, a Deputy Dean, a Dean, a Vice-Rector then again as a Dean at the Faculty of International Relations and the Higher School of Economics. From 1970 up to date I have published more than 270 scientific articles, brochures, books, monographs, textbooks, educational and scientific-methodical manuals. From 2008 to the present, I have been working as a professor at the Department of Economics, and now at the Department of Management. In recent years, I have published monographs as follows ("The Logic of Cognition of the Mixed Economy" 2014, "Intellectualization of Engineering and Technology - the Content of the Fourth Industrial Revolution" in 2020, "State Regulation of the Economy" in 2013, "Economica Memlekettik Retteu" 2014, "Ekonomıkalyk teorııa boıynsha praktıkalyk oky kyraly " 2006)