Bakhtiyor Saidov

Bakhtiyor Odilovich Saidov was born on 22 April 1981 in Samarkand. He graduated from the Tashkent State University of Economics in 2002 and studied at the World Trade Institute in 2007. His field is international economic relations and trade policy.

He began his career in 2002 as an intern at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2003 to 2008 he held senior posts at the state joint-stock company Urta Osiyo Trans, the Uzinfoinvest agency and other departments of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade. In 2009–2013 he was an adviser on trade and economic affairs at Uzbekistan's embassy in South Korea, and in 2013–2015 he headed the department for the examination and monitoring of international treaties at the Cabinet of Ministers.

From July 2017 he was Ambassador of Uzbekistan to China, concurrently to Mongolia from April 2018 and to the Philippines from July 2019.

On 17 November 2021 he was approved as Minister of Public Education and served until 30 December 2022. On 30 December 2022 he was appointed acting Minister of Foreign Affairs; he was confirmed in the post on 25 April 2023 and holds it today.

He received the Order of Friendship in 2018 and, by presidential decree of 22 August 2026, the Order of Labor Glory (Mehnat shuhrati). In 2020 China's Jiangxi university gave him the title of honorary professor.