Muzaffar Komilov

Muzaffar Murotovich Komilov is a civil servant who has worked in higher education and religious-educational affairs. Before the Presidential Administration he was a department head at the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education and a vice-rector at the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies and the Tashkent State University of Economics.

On 18 April 2018 he became first deputy chairman of the Committee on Religious Affairs. In May 2021 a government resolution made him rector of the International Islamic Academy of Uzbekistan.

In February 2022 he succeeded Shoazim Minovarov as the President's adviser on cooperation with public and religious organizations while continuing to lead the academy. He was relieved of the advisory post on 4 December 2024 and reappointed rector of the academy on 6 December.

In July 2025 he became deputy adviser to the President on representative bodies, non-governmental non-profit organizations, religion and youth, and in March 2026 head of the Presidential Administration's Department for Religious and Educational Affairs. On 10 July 2026 a presidential decree appointed him adviser on religious and educational affairs.

On 22 August 2026, for the 35th anniversary of independence, he was awarded the Order «Do'stlik» (Friendship).