Alisher Qodirov

Alisher Keldiyevich Qodirov was born in 1975 in Tashkent. He graduated from Ege University in İzmir, Turkey, in 1996, from the Tashkent Financial Institute (by correspondence) in 2009, and from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Uzbekistan in 2011. He is a philologist and economist by profession.

From 1996 he worked in the Jizzakh region: first as a leading specialist in the regional office of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade, then in the regional office for state property and support of entrepreneurship, and later as head of the regional office for foreign economic relations. He also headed the Republican Center for Spirituality and Enlightenment.

Since 2015 he has been a deputy of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis for the Milliy Tiklanish Democratic Party. In 2017 he became deputy chairman of the Committee on Budgetary and Economic Reforms and a member of the Committee on International Affairs and Inter-parliamentary Relations. On 22 May 2019 he was elected leader of Milliy Tiklanish, succeeding Sarvar Atamuradov, and on 13 June of that year deputy speaker of the chamber.

In August 2021 the party nominated him for president. In the election of 24 October 2021 he received 888,515 votes, about 5.5%, according to the Central Election Commission, placing third behind Shavkat Mirziyoyev (80.1%) and Maqsuda Vorisova (6.6%). In August 2023 he was awarded the Order of “Mehnat shuhrati”.

In September–October 2024 he took part for Milliy Tiklanish in the first public debates of the leaders of the five parties. In September 2024 Gazeta.uz described him as the party's leader and a deputy speaker of the Legislative Chamber.