A Customs Service lieutenant colonel with 20 years of experience, Ms Pirmukhamedova specialises in law, promoting gender equality and working to protect women’s rights and opportunities. She is currently a Chief Inspector of the Targeting and Risk Monitoring Department of the Customs Committee under the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Ms Pirmukhamedova believes that being a leader is simply a necessity when your team puts its trust in you and you are given responsibility. She believes that a leader is someone who can correctly identify primary objectives, organise activities, work in a team, demonstrate the team’s work, appreciate the importance of each role in teamwork, meet set goals, correctly present achievements and make decisions with a sense of responsibility for the work done, within the framework of the law. For her part, Ms Pirmukhamedova aims to embody these qualities and earn her team’s respect. She regards becoming certified as a risk management system expert in accordance with EU standards as one of her best achievements.
Ms Pirmukhamedova also has an academic side — she has written a treatise on ‘Aspects of enhancing legal support for a risk management system in the work of customs authorities’, has written more than 13 research papers, seven of which have been published in international journals, and is currently doing research for a PhD on ‘Enhancing legal support for a risk management system in the work of customs authorities’.
In addition to her main job and research work, Ms Pirmukhamedova is active in public life. She is a certified trainer on gender issues, the Chair of the Advisory Council on issues concerning women in Uzbekistan’s customs authorities, a member of the Council on protecting the legal rights and opportunities of women and men at the Customs Committee Headquarters, and a member of the Trade Union Committee of the Customs Committee Headquarters.
Ms Pirmukhamedova is proud of her contribution to the State Customs Committee’s win in the ‘Best Law Enforcement Agency for the Protection of Women’s Rights’ category in the national Gender Equality Activist contest in 2001, in which it beat more than 60 ministries and agencies in Uzbekistan, as well as its second place in the ‘Best Start-up Organisation’ category out of the Women’s Committee of Uzbekistan’s 20,000 start-ups. In addition, Ms Pirmukhamedova made a huge contribution to the victory by a team of young women from the Customs Committee in gymnastics competitions for Uzbek ministries and departments in 2022 and 2023.
Apart from her professional and public activities, Ms Pirmukhamedova has, with her beloved husband, brought up three daughters, who have earned degrees and got married, and has three grandchildren.