Zarnigor Naimjonova is a doctoral student (PhD) at IAIS under the scientific supervision of Professor Azamat Seitov, Head of the Laboratory for Anthropology and Conflict Studies. She studied international relations and world politics at the Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from TSUOS. She worked as a chief migration specialist at the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Her dissertation is on “Migration Policy as a Direction of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy”. Her research interests focus on Uzbekistan’s bilateral and multilateral relations with other developed countries, as well as on the study of migration policy. She is the author of several scientific articles published in national and international publications.

She is fluent in Uzbek, English and Russian.

E-mail: naimjonova.zarnigor@iais.uz