Zulhayat Ismail

Zulhayat Ismail (born September 1977) is a Chinese university administrator and politician of Uyghur ethnicity, currently serving as director of the Education Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in office since March 2023.

She is a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Early life and education
Zulhayat Ismail was born in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, in September 1977. In 2008 she graduated from Peking University with a Ph.D. in sociology. From January 2010 to November 2012, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Xinjiang University.

Career
She began his political career in June 2014, when he was appointed deputy director of the Middle School and University Offices of the School Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China.

She has served as vice president of Xinjiang University, as well as deputy party secretary and dean of the School of Marxism at Xinjiang University. She was deputy party secretary and vice president of Kashi University in September 2022 and subsequently director of the Education Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in March 2023.