Shavkat Khamraev

Shavkat Rakhimovich Khamraev was born on 13 August 1964 in Bukhara. He graduated from the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration in 1986 and from the Academy of State and Society Building under the President of Uzbekistan in 2001. He began work in 1986 as an engineer in the water management system of Qorovulbozor district, Bukhara region.

In 1994–1997 he was deputy head of the Bukhara regional water management department and in 1997–2001 first deputy hokim of Vobkent district. In 2003 he was first deputy head of the Amu-Bukhara basin irrigation systems authority, and from 2005 to 2017 he was deputy minister of agriculture and water management and head of its Main Water Management Directorate.

Since 12 February 2018 he has been Minister of Water Resources of Uzbekistan; the Legislative Chamber approved his candidacy in the cabinet on 21 November 2024. In September 2019 he was elected vice-president of the International Executive Council of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) for 2019–2022.

His honours include the Order of Friendship («Dustlik», 2011), the titles of Merited Irrigator of Karakalpakstan (2016) and of Uzbekistan (2017), and Tajikistan's Order of Sharaf (2018).