Deputy
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Public Fund for Support and
Development of National Mass Media, Republic of Uzbekistan
Her Excellency Saida Mirziyoyeva is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Public Fund for Support and Development of National Mass Media in Uzbekistan. Prior to her appointment, she was a member of Uzbekistan’s Commission on Ensuring Gender Equality.
Mirziyoyeva also served as Deputy Director of the Agency of Information and Mass Communications under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Before that, she was Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Art and Culture Development Foundation.
Since 2018, she has been a Researcher at the Centre for Strategic Studies of Lomonosov Moscow State University, from which she also received a master’s degree. She holds a PhD in Public Administration from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as a master’s degree from Tashkent State Law Institute.
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