E'zozxon Karimova

E'zozxon Karimova was born in 1973 in the Namangan district of the Namangan region. She finished school in 1990 and studied at the philosophy faculty of Tashkent State University (now the National University of Uzbekistan), graduating in 1996 and staying on as a postgraduate; in 2003 she defended a candidate dissertation in social psychology and sociology.

She began in schools of the Namangan region and then taught at the Tashkent film technical school. From 2001 to 2021 she worked at the Tashkent University of Information Technologies, from assistant at the philosophy department to head of its youth work, spirituality and enlightenment department. In 2021 she headed a department at the Agency for the Development of Presidential, Creative and Specialised Schools, in 2021–2023 she was adviser to the director of the presidential educational institutions, and in 2023–2024 vice-rector for youth affairs and spiritual-educational work at New Uzbekistan University.

On 7 May 2025 she was appointed deputy minister of preschool and school education and rector of the Nizami National Pedagogical University of Uzbekistan, and on 31 July a presidential decree confirmed her as Minister of Preschool and School Education. In early October 2026 the ministry was merged with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation into a single Ministry of Education and Science, and Karimova was appointed first deputy head of the Republican Centre for Spirituality and Enlightenment.