Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - On 31 March this year, Atabek Nazirov was appointed to the post of adviser to the Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade - head of the Direct Investment Fund of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

This Fund was created to invest in competitive domestic companies, as well as to form long-term mutually beneficial partnerships with private national and foreign co-investors.

The founder of this Fund is the Fund for Reconstruction and Development, and the coordination of its activities is carried out by the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade.

A. Nazirov was born in 1975 in the city of Tashkent, in 1998 he graduated from the State University of New York in the USA, majoring in macroeconomics. He has extensive experience in investment activities, worked in large financial and investment companies such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase in the USA, Troika Dialog and MDM Bank in Russia, as well as in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.

In Uzbekistan, he began his activities in 2018 as Deputy Minister of Innovative Development, then as Deputy Minister of Public Education. Since January 2019, he worked as Director of the Capital Market Development Agency.