Bakhtiyor Islamov

Professor Bakhtiyor Anvarovich Islamov is one of Uzbekistan's leading scholars in international and development economics, with extensive diplomatic experience in the country, including serving as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Uzbekistan to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, as well as deputy minister of foreign affairs. He was among the first three Uzbek scholars who came to Harvard University in the 1990-1991 academic year; later he worked as a professor at Tohoku, Hitotsubashi, Hokkaido, and Tokyo universities in Japan. He has authored over 250 works, including monographs, book chapters, journal articles, scholarly reports, and conference abstracts, many of which have been published internationally. Of those, about 100 have been published in English. He is currently a professor at the Tashkent branch of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and at Tashkent State Economic University.