Jamshid Khodjayev

Jamshid Khodjayev was born in 1979 in Kokand, Fergana Region. He graduated from Tashkent State University of Economics in 2000 as a scholar of the Umid Foundation, and in 2003 earned an MBA in international economic relations and public administration at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.

From 2000 he worked in the banking system, at Uzprivatbank and the Central Bank, and in 2017 as first deputy chairman of the National Bank for Foreign Economic Activity. In August 2017 he became first deputy chairman of the Accounts Chamber, and by presidential decree of 28 November 2017 minister of foreign trade.

On 28 January 2019 he was appointed minister of agriculture. During that period the strategy for developing agriculture in 2020–2030 was drawn up, and in November 2020 he was elected chairman of the FAO Regional Conference for Europe and Central Asia.

On 16 July 2022 the Legislative Chamber approved his nomination as deputy prime minister for investment and foreign economic relations and minister of investment and foreign trade. At the end of 2022 he left the ministerial post and remained deputy prime minister. After the renewed government was formed in November 2024 he was appointed deputy prime minister again, responsible for investment, industry and trade, and continues in the post. He was awarded the Order of Mehnat Shuhrati in 2024.