
Akmal Saidov
Director of the National Center for Human Rights of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Title: Academic, Prof., Dr.
Full Name: Akmal Kholmatovich SAIDOV
Date of birth: October 11, 1958
Place of birth: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Nationality: Uzbekistan
Ethnicity: Uzbek
Marital status: married (daughter and son)
Education:
- Graduated from the Tashkent State Law Institute
1981-1984 Postgraduate courses followed by defending of dissertation in Comparative Law at the Moscow Institute of State and Law
1990 Doctoral Dissertation on Western Comparative Law
Work experience:
1985-1989 Senior researcher and Head of Department at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan
1989-1991 President of the Committee of the Youth Organization of Uzbekistan
1991-1992 Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan
1992-1993 Founder and Director of the Institute for Strategic and Inter-Regional Researches attached to the President of Uzbekistan
1993-1994 Rector of the Tashkent State Law Institute
1994-1996 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Uzbekistan to France and Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan at the UNESCO
1996-present Director of the National Human Rights Centre of Uzbekistan
1997-1998 Director of the “Public Opinion” Non-governmental Centre
since 1996 Possesses Diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan with the status of Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan
since 1997 Member of the Oliy Majlis (The Uzbek Parliament)
since 1999 Founder and Chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair on Human Rights, Peace, Democracy, Tolerance and International Understanding at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent
2000 - 2020 Chairman of the Committee on Democratic institutions, Non-governmental organizations and Citizens’ self-governing bodies of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis (Parliament) of Uzbekistan
since 2018 Member of the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
since 2018 Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Development of Civil Society under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
2019 - 2020 Chairman of the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
since 2019 Member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
since 2020 Deputy chairman of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
since 2020 The first deputy speaker of the Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis
Professional affiliations:
since 1991 Member of the International Association of Jurists of the Asian and Pacific Region
since 1990 Foreign member of the Society for Comparative Legislation of France
since 1995 Foreign member of the Society of Asia
since 1990 President of the National Commission for the International Association of Judicial Sciences
since 1990 President of the National Commission for the International Academy of Comparative Law
since 2000 Member of the Russian Association of International Law
since 2001 Visiting Lecturer at Paris University I (Sorbonne)
since 2010 Correspondent member of the International Academy of Comparative Law
since 2013 Member of the International Association of Constitutional Law