Kamoliddin Muminzod has been appointed the new chairman of the Committee for Local Development under the President of Tajikistan. The corresponding decree was signed by President Emomali Rahmon on January 7. Prior to this appointment, Muminzod held the position of first deputy chairman of the Committee.
At 42, Kamoliddin Muminzod has been working in various government roles since 2007. He began his career as a monitoring and evaluation specialist at the Ministry of Education’s Education Renewal Project Implementation Unit from 2007 to 2010. Afterward, he worked for nearly a year as the chief monitoring and evaluation specialist at the Ministry of Agriculture’s Debt Resolution and Sustainable Cotton Industry Development Project Implementation Unit.
From 2010 to 2011, Muminzod served as a monitoring and evaluation assistant for the Economic and Social Opportunities for Youth in Tajikistan Project under the Committee for Youth, Sports, and Tourism. Before 2014, he also served as the national coordinator for monitoring and evaluation of the HIV/AIDS Prevention Among Rural Youth Project, and later as the director of the State Unitary Enterprise Youth Center of Dushanbe.
In 2014, Muminzod returned to the Ministry of Agriculture, where he worked as a procurement consultant in the Livestock Development and Pasture Utilization Project Implementation Unit until 2016. From 2016 to 2018, he served as a procurement consultant for the Strengthening Vocational Education and Training Project at the Ministry of Labor, Migration, and Employment of the Population.
After working for a year as a project procurement specialist at the NGO Light of Hope, he was invited to the Russian-Tajik (Slavonic) University in 2019, where he worked as a leading specialist in the program, project, and grant coordination department for education and science.
From 2020 to 2023, Muminzod served as Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Tourism Development and headed the Committee from 2023 to 2025. He was First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Local Development starting January 29, 2025.
Muminzod holds a degree in law from the National University of Tajikistan (2006), a degree in accounting, analysis, and auditing from the Russian-Tajik (Slavonic) University (2012), and a master's degree in international public procurement management from the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) from 2019 to 2020.
As the head of the Committee for Tourism Development, Kamoliddin Muminzod was known for his openness with the press. He was not a bureaucratic official and often found himself on the ground, addressing issues where solutions were needed.
