Zulaykho Makhkamova

Zulaykho Makhkamova was born in 1968 in Yangikurgan district of Namangan region. She graduated from the Namangan State Pedagogical Institute and from the Academy of State and Public Construction under the President of Uzbekistan.

From 1989 to 1998 she worked in public education. From 1998 to 2011 she was deputy hokim of Yangikurgan district for social protection of family, motherhood and childhood. From 2011 to 2017 she headed the Namangan regional association of trade union organisations.

In 2017–2018 she was deputy hokim of Namangan region and chair of its regional women's committee. From 24 April 2018 she was first deputy chair of the Women's Committee of Uzbekistan. From 4 March 2020 she was hokim of Turakurgan district, Namangan region.

From 1 March 2022 she chaired the re-established State Committee for Family and Women's Affairs and served as deputy prime minister; she kept the deputy prime minister post in the government formed in November 2024.

On 10 July 2026 a presidential decree relieved her of the deputy prime minister post and the committee chair in connection with her move to other work; Dilnoza Kattakhonova was appointed in her place.