Alisher Ilkhamov

Alisher Ilkhamov is Eurasia Program Officer at the Open Society Foundations and former director of the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation Uzbekistan.

How to return one billion dollars stolen from the people of Uzbekistan

The saga of Gulnara Karimova’s ill-gotten and ill-fated assets – frozen in a number of mostly European jurisdictions – may soon come to an end.

By Alisher Ilkhamov

/ 9 Aug 2018

A new era in US-Uzbekistan relations poses old challenges for the international community

My country is at a crossroads. If it does not reform its governance system to better protect against corruption, it will become mired in crony capitalism.

By Alisher Ilkhamov

/ 5 Jun 2018