Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on September 10, 2025 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Ambassador Bakhtiyor A. Islamov. Moderated by Alexander Cooley.
Former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, Ambassador to Russia and Belarus with residence in Moscow Bakhtiyor A. Islamov will discuss the development of trade relations between Uzbekistan and Russia. Drawing on personal experiences and insights gained as a career diplomat, professor, doctor of economic sciences, Ambassador B. Islamov will describe the Uzbek-Russian trade relations from the collapse of the former Soviet Union to the present time when China has emerged as a number one economic player in the region.
Bakhtiyor Anvarovich Islamov is one of Uzbekistan’s leading scholars in international and development economics, with extensive experiences in both economy and diplomacy in the country, including serving as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Uzbekistan to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, as well as a deputy minister for foreign affairs of Uzbekistan. He was among the first three Uzbek scholars to come to Harvard University in 1990-1991, later he worked as a professor at Tohoku, Hitotsubashi, Hokkaido and Tokyo Universities in Japan. He has authored more than 250 works, including monographs, book chapters, journal articles, scientific reports and abstracts in conference proceedings, many of which have been published internationally, of which around 100 have been published in English. He is currently a professor of the Tashkent Branch of the REU named after G. V. Plekhanov and the Tashkent state economic university, chair of the doctorate scientific council at Westminster University in Tashkent.
