Danbai was Born in 1963 in the city of Kentau in the South Kazakhstan region. He graduated from the University Kainar (Almaty), specializing in International Economic Relations, International Academy of Business, PhD, Doctor of Business Administration (DBA).

In his career he has headed large commercial structures for the supply and refining, wholesale and retail sales. In 2003-2006 he was the POCR’s Deputy Director General for Economics and Finance. In 2006-2008, occupied the post of the Executive Director of the Petrochemical and Oil Refining Unit at the national company KazMunaiGas JSC. Since September 2009 he has been the Director General of the POCR.

Shukhrat Danbai is an experienced and responsible manager. A stable operation of the company and an increase of the volume of oil refining and petroleum products were implemented udner his management. Since 2009, the POCR has been successfully fulfilling the production program for the processing of raw materials and production output.

The realization of the large-scale project “Modernization of the Pavlodar Oil and Chemistry Refinery” was also a part of his tenure. He is a part of work on the reconstruction of the existing equipment and the construction of new facilities that will make it possible next year to produce motor fuels, according to the environmental class K4.

Danbai is also involved in broad social activities: he is the President of the NGO Boxing Federation of the Pavlodar region and the hockey team Yertys, member of the Political Bureau of the Pavlodar regional branch of People’s Democratic Party Nur Otan, deputy of the Pavlodar regional maslikhat of the V-VI convocation, honorary head of the department of chemistry and chemical engineering of the Pavlodar state University named after S. Toraigyrov and member of the international and national conferences, seminars, symposia on the development of petrochemical and oil-refining industry.

He was awarded the Order Kurmet, medals of KAZENERGY, For merits in the patriotic education of youth, commemorative medals Kazakstan Respublikasynin tauelsyzdigine 20 zhyl, 75 years of Pavlodar region, 35 years of the factory, a medal for Services to the region. He was awarded the title Honorary Citizen of the city of Pavlodar.