Hilola Umarova

Hilola Umarova was born on 9 August 1988 in Weimar, Germany. She graduated from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, earning a bachelor’s degree in 2010 and a master’s degree in foreign economic activity in 2013. From 2014 she worked at Inha University in Tashkent, where in 2019 she was chief manager for supporting entrepreneurship, innovative ideas and technologies.

In 2019–2020 she headed the Muhammad al-Khwarizmi Specialised School. By a presidential decree of 8 October 2020 she was appointed director of the Agency for the Development of Presidential, Creative and Specialised Schools under the Cabinet of Ministers, and held the post until 2022.

On 30 December 2022 she was appointed Minister of Preschool and School Education in the new government and kept the post in the government formed in November 2024. On 14 July 2025 she was relieved of the ministry and appointed deputy head of the Presidential Administration for education system reform.

On 16 February 2026 she was released from that post (Ilkhom Sirajev took her place), and on 17 February she was appointed deputy minister of preschool and school education for the development of teacher education and rector of the Nizami National Pedagogical University of Uzbekistan. A presidential resolution of 2 October 2026 removed the deputy-minister post from the ministry’s central apparatus and renamed the university after Nizami Ganjavi.