Shavkat Mirziyoyev presented to the Senate Timur Ishmetov, the first deputy advisor to the president on issues of developing the economy sectors, investment, and foreign trade policy, as a candidate for the position of the head of the Central Bank. This was reported by the press secretary of the head of state, Sherzod Asadov here.
The president had earlier submitted a nomination to the Senate for releasing Mamarizo Nurmuratov from this position .
We remind that on December 30, 2022, with the relevant decree of the president, Timur Ishmetov was released from the position of the finance minister. Since then, he has been working as the first deputy advisor to the head of state on issues of developing economy sectors, investment, and foreign trade policy.
Timur Aminjanovich Ishmetov (born in 1979) completed his bachelor's at the Tashkent Finance Institute in the finance-credit faculty (2000), and his master's at the University of Birmingham in the International Money and Banking direction (2005). Additionally, Ishmetov graduated from the Tashkent State Law University's faculty of jurisprudence (2007).
He began his professional career in 2000 as an economist at the Central Bank, where he has worked in various positions, including Head of the Department of Monetary Operations, International Reserves Management Department, Domestic Currency Market Operations Department, and the Department of Currency Regulation and Control. He worked as the first deputy head of the Central Bank from 2017 to 2019. From May 2019 until his appointment as minister in February 2020, he had been working as the first deputy minister of Finance.
