| Bolat Nurgaliyev | |
| Office1: | Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Israel and Cyprus |
| Term Start1: | 2012 |
| Term End1: | September 2014 |
| Predecessor1: | Galym Orazbakov |
| Successor1: | Doulat Kuanyshev |
| Office2: | Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation |
| Term Start2: | 1 January 2007 |
| Term End2: | 31 December 2009 |
| Predecessor2: | Zhang Deguang (as Executive Secretary) |
| Successor2: | Muratbek Imanaliyev |
| Office3: | Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Japan |
| Term Start3: | 2003 |
| Term End3: | 2006 |
| Predecessor3: | Yerlan Baudarbek-Kozhataev (as chargé d'affaires ad interim) |
| Successor3: | Dinara Zheldybayeva (as chargée d'affaires ad interim) |
| Office4: | Ambassador of Kazakhstan to South Korea |
| Term Start4: | 2001 |
| Term End4: | 2003 |
| Predecessor4: | Tulegen Zhukeev |
| Successor4: | Darkhan Berdaliev |
| Office5: | Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States, Canada and Mexico |
| Term Start5: | 1996 |
| Term End5: | 2000 |
| Predecessor5: | Tuleutai Suleimenov |
| Successor5: | Kanat Saudabayev |
| Birth Date: | 25 July 1951 |
| Birth Place: | Blagodatnoye, Erkenshilik Raion, Akmolin Oblast, Kazakh SSR, USSR |
| Alma Mater: | Tselinograd State Pedagogical Institute |
Bolat Kabdylkhamituly Nurgaliyev (kk|Болат Қабдылхамитұлы Нұрғалиев, Bolat Qabdylhamitūly Nūrğaliev; born July 25, 1951) is a Kazakh diplomat and the current Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for protracted conflicts.
Nurgaliyev studied foreign languages at the Tselinograd State Pedagogical Institute. He joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry, and served from 1980 to 1992 throughout South Asia. He then was the director of the Department of International Security and Arms Control Department of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry for four years, until he was appointed Ambassador to the United States in 1996. In 2001, he became Kazakhstan's ambassador to South Korea, and in 2003 the ambassador to Japan. He served as Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2009. Shortly after taking office, Nurgaliyev commented that "The most important task for the SCO now is to further crackdown on terrorism, separatism and extremism".[1] He was appointed as the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for protracted conflicts for the 2010 Kazakhstani Chairmanship of the OSCE.[2]