 He was appointed to his current position on June 10, 2018 at the 2018 SCO summit and took office on New Year's Day in 2019.Norov, PhD in Law, was born on August 31, 1955 in the city of Bukhara, in southern Uzbekistan.In 1972-1976, he studied at and graduated from Bukhara Pedagogical Institute, (Mathematics Department).