Sherzod Asadov

Sherzod Asadov was born on 4 May 1981 in the Shofirkon district of the Bukhara region. In 2006 he graduated from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, majoring in international economic relations. He speaks Uzbek, Russian, English, Spanish and Turkish.

From 2007 he worked in the Uzbek foreign ministry: as a referent and attaché in its main department for analysis and strategy of foreign policy, and in 2008–2012 as attaché and then third secretary of the Uzbek embassy in Singapore. In 2012–2015 he was second and first secretary and head of a division in the department for cooperation with the CIS and the SCO, and in 2015–2017 assistant to the foreign minister and head of the ministry's secretariat.

In October 2017 he was appointed counsellor and chargé d'affaires of the Uzbek embassy in Austria. From 29 August 2018 to 2020 he was Uzbekistan's ambassador to Austria and, at the same time, its permanent representative to the international organisations in Vienna: the OSCE, the IAEA, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, UNIDO and the CTBTO. In 2020 he was elected chair of the Economic and Environmental Committee of the OSCE Permanent Council, the first time a representative of Uzbekistan headed one of the organisation's three main committees.

On 19 March 2020 he was appointed deputy foreign minister, overseeing cooperation with the UN, the OSCE and the European Union. On 24 March 2021 President Shavkat Mirziyoyev appointed him deputy head of the Presidential Administration and the president's press secretary. After the post of head of the Administration and its deputies were abolished on 17 August 2023, he continued as the president's press secretary.

On 14 July 2025 a presidential decree made him head of the Communications Department of the Presidential Administration, and he kept the post of press secretary. On 22 August 2026, by a presidential decree issued for the 35th anniversary of independence, he was awarded the Order “Do‘stlik”.