Otabek Umarov

Otabek Muhammadaliyevich Umarov was born in 1984 in Kokand. He finished Kokand Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 32 in 2001 and went on to study management at the Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry, graduating in 2005. He earned a master's degree at the Tashkent State University of Economics in 2009 and in 2013–2015 took a master's programme in the design, construction and operation of highways.

From 2005 he worked in the foreign structures of the Uzavtosanoat company, rising from manager to deputy general director of UzAvto Odessa. In 2007–2011 he was a lead specialist at the holding's headquarters, and from 2012 to 2016 he lived in Seoul as vice president of UzAvto Korea.

He has been an employee of the State Security Service of the President of Uzbekistan since January 2017 and its deputy head since January 2018. In November 2024 he left that post. On 25 November 2024 the 41st general assembly of the National Olympic Committee elected President Shavkat Mirziyoyev as its chairman and Umarov as first deputy chairman.

His work in sports organisations began in 2019: in March he was elected chairman of the Uzbekistan Triathlon Federation, and in November president of the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Association of Uzbekistan. In February 2020, at an IMMAF council meeting in Nur-Sultan, he was chosen head of the newly created Central Asian MMA Confederation. On 14 August 2020 he announced that he was leaving both national posts.

On 15 December 2020 the executive committee of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) meeting in Oman elected him its vice president; as host of the 2025 Asian Youth Games, Uzbekistan had for the first time the right to put forward its candidate. In February 2026 he joined the Senate of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), the first member from Central Asia.

On 8 December 2021 a decree of the president of Kyrgyzstan awarded him the Honorary Diploma of the Kyrgyz Republic for strengthening friendship and cooperation between the two countries in culture and sport. He is married to Shahnoza Mirziyoyeva, daughter of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, which makes him the president's son-in-law.