Behzod Hoshimov

Behzod Hoshimov (Bekhzod Khoshimov) is an Uzbekistani economist, researcher and blogger, born in Tashkent on 8 August 1993.

He earned a bachelor's degree at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (2015) and a master's (2017) and PhD (2023) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research covers entrepreneurship, human capital and the economics of innovation.

According to his personal website, he is an Assistant Professor of Business Organizations and Society at New York University Abu Dhabi; previously he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.

He writes the Telegram blog «Iqtisodchi kundaligi» («An Economist's Diary») on economics, social-science research and current events in Uzbekistan and the world, and hosts the YouTube project «Hoshimov iqtisodiyoti» (Hoshimov's Economics), conversations about economics, science, history, education and development. Gazeta.uz named its episode with University of Chicago professor Steven Durlauf among the most-watched videos of July 2024. He also writes for gazeta.uz and kun.uz.

He co-edited the Uzbek translation of Acemoglu and Robinson's «Why Nations Fail» and was named in 2019 on a list of 30 public activists compiled by the Yuksalish movement. According to kun.uz he is a member of the public council under the State Tax Committee, of an expert council under the Legislative Chamber's Budget Committee and of the jury of the International Economics Olympiad; according to Uzbek Wikipedia, an independent member of the supervisory board of Mikrokreditbank.