Zhanara is General Counsel at Dana Gas. Zhanara joined Dana Gas on 1 September 2026. Zhanara is a UK-qualified solicitor with over 20 years of legal experience in the energy sector. She most recently served as General Counsel at TotalEnergies E&P in the UAE, and prior to that as Group General Counsel at EMSTEEL PJSC, where she led the legal, risk, and governance functions for one of the largest steel entities in the GCC. She was also the General Counsel at Dragon Oil, a wholly owned subsidiary of ENOC, with upstream operations in Iraq, Egypt and Turkmenistan.