Jakhongir Artikkhodjayev

In 2022, Tashkent hosted the World Judo Championships. Artikkhodjaev is also Chair of the Yoga Federation of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In 2020 the Rederation opened a new full-time office in Tashkent. Artikkhodjaev stated: “We will open all the possibilities in our power for the development of yoga in Uzbekistan.“

A number of “Business Cities” are also under construction in Tashkent. These include the Yunusobad Business City and the Mirzo-Ulugbek Business City. An International Financial Center is expected to be built in Tashkent in the near future on the territory of UzExpoCentre. In 2021, the Government announced a plan to increase the area of ​​retail space in Tashkent by 10 times, move heavy industry enterprises out of the city.

Since 2020, the Khokimyat has organised a Youth Forum in Tashkent to engage with young people and to invigorate the active role of young people in their community. In his words, "If we close down completely, our lives, especially for young people, will become darkness. I think that young people deserve a serious step. Someone has to take a step, start it gradually." The forum took place alongside the Agency for Youth Affairs and the Youth Union of Uzbekistan. In 2020, around 10,000 people registered for the forum. The 2021 edition included sessions on women's rights and environmental issues.In September 2021, Artikkhodjaev announced that the Khokimyat was introducing a special scholarship for five school students and their teachers. The “Khokimyat” scholarship would reward 5 students and their teachers for 9 months of the academic year.

Artikkhodjaev has a pro-business stance, and has expressed a desire to turn Tashkent into the Business Capital of Central Asia. Between 2020 and 2021, it was reported that the number of businesses registered in the country increased by 80,914, or over 20% in comparison to June 2020.

In 2020, Artikkhodjaev visited Nukus to partner with the city's Mayoralty. The aim of the visit was to share Tashkent's experience in order to help develop Nukus as a modern city.

Since Artikkhodjaev took up his position, according to the State Statistics Committee, the GDP of Tashkent increased from 15.3 trillion soums in 2019 to 23.7 trillion soums in 2021.

In 2019, Texnopark in Tashkent was developed to work with advanced technology, and now produces Samsung refrigerators.

In 2019 Artikkhodjaev launched the Green Initiative, which encourages citizens to get involved in tree-planting throughout Tashkent. Under the scheme, the khokimyat provides seedlings to be planted in specially designated areas. According to the campaign, over 400,000 seedlings were to be planted.

On November 16, 2019, a doctored audio recording of a conversation appeared, in which Artikkhodjaev allegedly threatened the journalists appeared on the website of the publication Kun.uz.

Furthermore, KUN.uz's journalistic and editorial team were found to be in violation of the law both in the recording and of the distribution, naming the publication's journalistic and editorial team. The Prosecutor's Office noted that the recording was taken and distributed to create negative PR against the Khokim. “On November 16, 2019, an unknown person, in order to discredit the Khokim Jahongir Artikkhodjaev, distributed on social networks a recording lasting one and a half minutes (the meeting lasted two hours), edited from inappropriate words.”

He was appointed to his post on 21 December 2018, having been acting Khokim since April 26, 2018. He is also a senator of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and he is Chair of the Yoga Federation of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

In 2018, Artikkhodjaev was unanimously approved to the post of Mayor of Tashkent. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev nominated him to the role, stating that Artikkhodjaev's success as an entrepreneur made him the most suitable candidate for the job.  The President further stated to a group of investors in 2018: "I trust tomorrow only to entrepreneurs. Therefore, I made a decision: the entrepreneur is the Khokim of Tashkent."

The Mayoralty has been engaged in considerable urban renewal projects since 2018. This includes the renewal of the Capital's roads and canals, bridges, development of parks and recreational areas, as well as social housing. However, the Khokhim has stated “we are building a new metropolis, but we do not want to turn it into a faceless city of glass and concrete”.

In recent years, the business environment in Uzbekistan has rapidly transformed to allow businesses to grow and become more transparent. Prior to 2018, many of Artikkhodjaev's businesses grew as a set of smaller companies that correlated in activity and geography with the business activity, including several companies operating overseas. This is because the traditional holding group structure did not exist in Uzbek law. These restrictions and solutions applied to every private business in Uzbekistan.

In 2015, he was awarded the Order of Dustlik by the President of Uzbekistan.

In 2011, Artikkhodjaev founded the Artel Group to produce electronics and household appliances. The company was funded from capital from the success of Akfa, and started with a small factory in Tashkent. In the same year, the company partnered with international companies including Samsung, for whom Artel began producing vacuum cleaners in Nukus.  The company has since become the largest manufacturer of household appliances and electronics in Central Asia.

In 2001, Artikkhodjaev founded the Akfa Company which started as a company for reselling imported profiles, in cooperation with the Turkish company Akpa. In 2010, the Akfa group of companies began the production of profiles for windows and doors in Tashkent.

In the early 1990s, when he was 17 years old Artikkhodjaev opened his first company, Jahongir LLC; a hairdressers and a shoe shop.  In 1994, Artikkhodjaev opened his first car service centre, and began selling aluminium profiles, the latter of which became a cornerstone of his subsequent business development.

Artikkhodjaev was born on January 2, 1975, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He graduated from the Tashkent State University of Economics in 1996.