Farkhod Tolipov

Farkhod Tolipov is an Uzbekistani political scientist and Candidate of Political Sciences. He specialises in modern geopolitics, the theory of international security and regional integration in Central Asia.

According to CABAR.asia, he worked in the Presidential Administration of Uzbekistan in 1998–2002, was an intern at the NATO Defense College in Rome in 1997 and at Harvard University in 1999, and taught at Georgia State University (USA) in 2004.

He is the founder and director of Bilim Karvoni (Knowledge Caravan), a non-governmental non-profit research institution created in Tashkent in February 2017 and registered by the Ministry of Justice. Its stated aims are to develop the social and human sciences, to produce new knowledge about Uzbekistan and Central Asia, and to contribute professionally to democratic development.

He is the author of more than 80 research publications, including the monograph on Uzbekistan's higher strategy amid the geopolitical and ideological transformation of Central Asia and, as co-author, the collective monograph "Central Asia: geoeconomy, geopolitics, security". The Yuksalish movement's "Top-40: opinion leaders" list (February 2024) describes him as a political scientist who publishes analytical articles on geopolitics, international security and regional integration in national and foreign outlets and often appears as an expert in interviews.

In September 2015 he and other political scientists signed an open appeal against the higher education minister's decision to end the teaching of political science at universities, and he published it on his Facebook page (Anhor.uz).