D inara Kulibaeva is a Kazakhstani businesswoman and the middle daughter of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the first president of Kazakhstan who ruled the country for nearly three decades. She is one of the wealthiest people in her country, with a fortune derived from her vast business interests, particularly in the banking sector. She and her husband, Timur Kulibayev, are often referred to as the most powerful couple in Kazakhstan.

She is the largest shareholder of Halyk Bank (the People's Bank of Kazakhstan), the country's largest commercial bank. Her husband, Timur, is also a powerful oligarch with extensive interests in the country's energy sector. In addition to her banking interests, Dinara also runs an education foundation. Her immense wealth and influence are inextricably linked to her father's long and authoritarian rule over the resource-rich Central Asian nation.