Obid Khakimov

Obid Arzikulovich Khakimov was born in 1977 in Termez, in the Surkhandarya region. He graduated from the Tashkent Finance Institute in 1998 and later studied at Vanderbilt University and Middle Tennessee State University in the United States.

He began his career in 2009 as a lecturer at Westminster International University in Tashkent, served there as vice-rector for economic affairs in 2010–2012, and in 2012–2016 was a vice-rector of the Academy of Public Administration under the President. He then headed a sector in the service for citizens' rights and appeals in the President's staff.

In October 2019, when the Center for Economic Research was reorganized as the Center for Economic Research and Reforms under the Presidential Administration, he was named its head. In July 2025 he was deputy adviser to the President on economic policy and director of the center, and in October 2025 he became the President's adviser on economic policy, succeeding Ravshan Gulyamov.

On 3 October 2026 he was relieved of the adviser's post and appointed deputy head of the Presidential Administration for education reform. On 22 August 2026, for the 35th anniversary of independence, he was awarded the Order «Do'stlik» (Friendship).