Akbar Tashkulov

Akbar Jurabayevich Tashkulov (Toshqulov) was born on 21 September 1971 in the Jizzakh region. He graduated from the Tashkent State Law Institute in 1994 and began work at Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Justice the same year, as a senior consultant in the international law department (1994–1995) and then chief consultant in the department for drafting legislation and legal expertise (1995–1997).

From 2000 to 2005 he headed departments at the ministry: classification of legislation and legal information (2000–2002), legal affairs of the national economy (2002–2003), and legal protection of foreign investment and foreign-invested enterprises (2003–2005). He then led regional justice bodies: the Surkhandarya regional justice department (2005–2013) and the Syrdarya regional justice department (2013–2017).

In April 2017 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice by presidential decision and held the post until 9 December 2021. On 10 December 2021 he was appointed rector of the Tashkent State University of Law.

In November 2022 a presidential decree appointed him Minister of Justice of Uzbekistan, succeeding Ruslanbek Davletov. In September 2023, at a meeting in Dushanbe, he was elected chairman of the CIS Council of Ministers of Justice and took up the role at the start of 2024.

On 28 August 2015 he was given the honorary title Honoured Lawyer of Uzbekistan, and in August 2025 he was awarded the Order of Friendship (“Do‘stlik”). As of 9 October 2026 the government portal of Uzbekistan lists him as Minister of Justice.