The main driving force behind the UIB University has always been its founder and strategist Kenzhegali Sagadiyev - an outstanding scientist, a well-known organizer of higher education and science, public and public figure of Kazakhstan.Research Kenzhegali Sagadiev talent manifested itself early, fate gave him a chance to join the big Moscow scientific school. In Kazakhstan K. Sagadiyev it becomes one of the founders of a new direction of economic science and scientific school. His research in the field of management and use of the economic mechanism is a significant step in understanding how the system should operate a socially oriented market economy.For a scientist characteristic defining feature - do not dwell on the scientific issues only one branch. The scientific interests of Academician Sagadiev characterized by breadth of the search directions. It turned out to be fruitful research related to the problems of improving the management mechanism in the agro-industry, and especially the transition to new economic methods of management in the agricultural sector, ways to improve management in these industries and the deepening agrarian-industrial integration in the country.