Mirzo Iskandar Gulamov is currently the Country Specialist and Programming Team Leader in Asian Development Bank’s Kazakhstan Resident Mission, based in Astana, where he oversees all country programming and thematic work. In this capacity, he coordinates the bank’s work on new financing modalities and products, including non-sovereign assistance to the country’s public sector. Before posting to Kazakhstan, Mr. Gulamov worked for more than ten years in ADB’s Uzbekistan Resident Mission, where he led strategy formulation, programming, economic, and liaison work and contributed to the substantial expansion of ADB operations in Uzbekistan. Mr. Gulamov also worked in the Strategy and Policy Department at ADB headquarters in Manila, Philippines, where he was involved in the review and subsequent reforms of country partnership strategy business processes.
Before joining ADB, Mr. Gulamov had more than nine years of experience in the private and public sectors. More recently, Mr. Gulamov was a partner at Dundee Capital Partners, a Central Asia-focused investment management company, based in Austria. Previously, he was head of the state budget revenue department of the Ministry of Finance of Uzbekistan. Mr. Gulamov receives research grants from Global Development Network, Economic Education and Research Consortium, and USAID. He is a member of the Institute of International Finance.
Mr. Gulamov holds a master's degree in international economics from Tashkent State Economic University and a bachelor's degree in finance from Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He also undertook graduate studies in strategy and finance at the University of Chicago. He is fluent in English and Russian.