Timur Ishmetov
Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Uzbekistan since December 2024; Minister of Finance in 2020–2022, with a long earlier career at the central bank.
- Occupation:
- Politician, Minister
- Real name:
- Timur Amindzhanovich Ishmetov
- Born:
- 1979
- Birthplace:
- Tashkent
Biography
Timur Ishmetov was born in 1979 in Tashkent. He graduated from the Tashkent Financial Institute, studied at the Tashkent State Law Institute and holds a master's degree from the University of Birmingham.
He has worked at the Central Bank of Uzbekistan since 2000, starting as an economist. In 2001–2004 he headed the department for currency exchange and external relations, and in 2010–2017 the department for currency management and control.
In 2017 he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank. In May 2019 he became First Deputy Minister of Finance.
From February 2020 until the end of 2022 he was Minister of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In December 2022 he was appointed First Deputy Adviser to the President.
On 11 December 2024 the Senate Council, on the President's proposal, appointed him Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank, succeeding Mamarizo Nurmurodov.
Education
- Tashkent Finance InstituteUniversity · Tashkent · 2000 · Finance and credit
Career
- Ministry of Finance of UzbekistanMinister of Finance · Tashkent · 2020–2022Everyone who held this post →
- Central Bank of the Republic of UzbekistanChairman of the Board · Tashkent · 2024–presentEveryone who held this post →
Life path
- 2000Economist at the Central Bank of Uzbekistan
- 2001Head of the currency exchange and external relations department, Central Bank
- 2010Head of the currency management and control department, Central Bank
- 2017First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank
- 2019First Deputy Minister of Finance
- 2020Minister of Finance of Uzbekistan
- 2022First Deputy Adviser to the President
- 2024Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Uzbekistan