Amanbay Orinbayev

Amanbay Tleubaevich Orynbaev (Orinbayev in Uzbek spelling) was born on 17 September 1979 in the Kegeyli district of Karakalpakstan. He studied at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan in 1998–2002 and completed a master's degree there in 2004.

He began his career in the interior ministry system, first in the Kegeyli district department and then in the Karakalpakstan ministry's criminal investigation and counter-terrorism units. In 2012–2016 he was first deputy and then head of the Amudarya district department of internal affairs, in 2016–2017 he headed the Nukus city department, and in 2017–2019 the Criminal Investigation Department of the Karakalpakstan ministry.

From 2019 to 2020 he was Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Karakalpakstan for public order, and he then held senior posts in the public security divisions of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 2022 he was Minister of Internal Affairs of Karakalpakstan and, from July of that year, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Karakalpakstan for ecology and the development of the Aral Sea region.

On 26 August 2022 an extraordinary session of the Jokargy Kenes of the Republic of Karakalpakstan elected him chairman unanimously by secret ballot, with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev backing his candidacy. On 13 September 2022 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis, and he was re-elected to that post in November 2024.

Among state honours he received the Order «Do'stlik» (Friendship) in 2013, and in 2015 the title Honoured Lawyer of the Republic of Karakalpakstan.