Shuhrat Sodiqov

Shuhrat Sodiqov was born in 1969 in Tashkent region. He graduated from the Jizzakh State Pedagogical Institute in 1992 and from the Tashkent University of Information Technologies in 2004; in 2008 he received a master's degree in economics from the Academy of State and Public Construction under the President of Uzbekistan.

He began his career in 1992 as an engineer-economist at a radiotelephone communications centre in Jizzakh. In 1997–2002 he worked at the State Communications Inspectorate of Tashkent. In 2004–2017 he served in the information and analytical department for information systems and telecommunications of the Cabinet of Ministers, heading it from 2010. He was deputy general director of Uztelecom in 2006 and its general director in 2008–2010.

In 2017–2018 he headed the National Project Management Agency under the President. From August 2018 to November 2021 he was Minister for the Development of Information Technologies and Communications; in November 2021 he was relieved of the post by a presidential decree.

In February 2023 he was appointed deputy head of the Prime Minister's secretariat, and since February 2024 he has headed the secretariat of Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov. He was awarded the Order of Labour Glory (2020) and the Order of Friendship (2026).