CURRICULUM VITAE of Mr. Erkin Kasymov,

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajikistan to the United Kingdom

Date of birth 19 May 1951, Nationality Tajik, Education 1969 – 1974, Tajik State University, Dushanbe, Faculty of oriental languages, philologist – orientalist. 
Employment 1974-1982, First Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Tajikistan; 
1982-1989, Chief of Protocol and Consular Section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Tajikistan;

1989-1993, Third Secretary of the USSR Consulate-General in Basra, Iraq and Second Secretary of the USSR Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq;

1993-2001, Head of Department of International Organizations and International Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan;

2001-2003, First Deputy Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan;

2003-2007, Ambassador Extraordinary and  Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajikistan to Austrian Republic, Swiss Confederation and Hungary;
Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the OSCE and other International Organizations to Vienna;

2007 to May 2008, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan;
May 2008 to present, Ambassador of Tajikistan to the UK.

Marital status Married with  two daughters. Languages Native Tajik.  Russian, English, Arabic – fluently.
Diplomatic rank Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.