Askhat Kessikbayev was born in 1975 in the city of Balkhash, Kazakhstan. After graduating from the Faculty of Economy of the Anadolu University, he completed his Master’s Degree in 2001 at the Institute of Social Science of the same university with a thesis on the “Geo-Economic Transformation in Central Asia: Kazakhstan Oil and Aktau-Baku-Ceyhan Oil Route.” He got his Ph.D. in International Relations in 2007 at Marmara University with a thesis titled “The Geopolitics of Eurasia in the Post–Cold War Period: Structural Transformation in Central Asia.

Over the years, he has worked as an expert in research centers and is the author of many scientific articles. He has been working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan since 2007, including the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Republic of Türkiye. Since November 2022, by the decision of the Scientific Council of Turkic Academy, he has been appointed as Vice-President of the Turkic Academy. Askhat Kessikbayev speaks Kazakh, Turkish, English, and Russian.