Aktam Haitov

Aktam Ahmadovich Haitov was born in 1974 in the Kashkadarya region. In 1994 he graduated from the Samarkand Institute of Economics and Service in economics and management, and holds the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.

In 1994–2000 he worked at the Samarkand institute and in the information and analytical group of the Samarkand regional khokimiyat. From 2000 he was with the information and analytical department of the Cabinet of Ministers, and in 2002–2005 he was deputy chairman of the Committee on Economically Insolvent Enterprises under the Ministry of Macroeconomics and Statistics. In 2005–2006 he held the posts of first deputy chairman of the State Committee on Demonopolization, Support of Competition and Entrepreneurship, head of an information and analytical department of the Cabinet of Ministers, and first deputy minister of labour and social protection.

From 2006 to 2014 he was acting minister and then minister of labour and social protection of the population. In 2014–2016 he was deputy chairman of the board of the joint-stock company Biokimyo, in 2016–2017 director general of the Uzbek Agency for Standardization, Metrology and Certification, and in 2017–2018 minister of employment and labour relations.

On 3 August 2018, at the 10th meeting of its Political Council, he was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Political Council of UzLiDeP, the party's leader. Since 2019 he has chaired the Council of Farmers, Dehkan Farms and Owners of Household Lands of Uzbekistan. He has been a deputy of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis since December 2019; in 2020–2024 he was a deputy speaker of the chamber and head of the UzLiDeP faction, and since 2024 a deputy, faction head and member of the Committee on Agrarian and Water Management Issues.

In the Legislative Chamber election of 27 October 2024 UzLiDeP won 64 of the 150 seats. Before the vote, in September–October 2024, the first public debates of the leaders of the five parties were held, and Haitov took part as UzLiDeP leader. In 2020 he was awarded the Order of “Mehnat shuhrati”.