Alisher Vahobov

Alisher Vosikovich Vahobov was born in 1963 in what is now Uzbekistan. In 1986 he graduated from Tashkent State University (now the National University of Uzbekistan) in political economy.

He began his working life in 1986 as a lecturer in the department of economic theory at the Tashkent University of National Economy. He received the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences in 1991 and that of Doctor of Economic Sciences in 2001. From 1991 he worked at the Tashkent Finance Institute, first as a senior lecturer and then as an associate professor of economic theory; in 1998 he was appointed head of the department of the same name at the Tax Training Centre attached to the institute.

From 1999 to 2002 he was dean of the Faculty of Finance and Economics at the Tashkent Finance Institute, from 2002 to 2005 vice-rector for academic affairs, and from 2005 to 2012 rector of the institute. From 2012 to 2014 he headed the Tashkent State University of Economics.

By a presidential decree of 14 April 2014 he was appointed Minister of Higher and Secondary Special Education of Uzbekistan and from that year was a member of the Cabinet of Ministers. He was relieved of the post in September 2016, and Rustam Kasimov was appointed minister in his place.

According to Kimyo International University in Tashkent, Vahobov is a Doctor of Economic Sciences and a professor of that university; together with two colleagues he was admitted as a full member of the American Economic Association (the announcement gives no date).