Dr. Kozhakhmetov is also the Vice President for Central Asia of the International Association for Management Development in dynamic societies CEEMAN, President of the Civic Alliance of Kazakhstan and a member of the National Council of Public Trust of Kazakhstan.
PRME is a United Nations initiative implemented since 2007. The six principles of PRME represent the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and corporate social responsibility in education and research, the involvement of business and government in education, and the development of talented students - leaders and agents of the future change.
More than 800 institutions around the world support this initiative. Kazakhstan is represented by three universities. The longest-standing signatory in Kazakhstan, Almaty Management University (AlmaU), has been developing cooperation with the PRME Secretariat on global engagement and development issues in responsible management since 2009, and publishing PRME commitment reports available on the UN PRME website.
The PRME Board is responsible for strategy and policy recommendations and advancing the PRME vision, supported by the UN Global Compact signatories and other stakeholders. This year, the PRME Board members are the heads of the world's leading universities and expert associations: INSEAD (France), Ivey Business School (Canada), Cologne Business School (Germany), Wollongong University (Australia), Peking University (China), Asian Institute of Management (Philippines), Association of MBA’s (UK), UNESCO, UN, and etc.
Almaty Management University puts social responsibility as one of the fundamental principles of its activities. AlmaU is also a signatory to the UN Academic Impact initiative, reaffirming its commitment to UN goals. AlmaU's impact and achievements are assessed for the second year in a row by the international rating agency Times Higher Education (THE) in the Impact ranking. CEEMAN, the International Association for Management development in dynamic societies, awarded AlmaU with the CEEMAN Champions Awards in Institutional Management in 2014 and Responsible Management Education in 2017.