Serdar Berdimuhamedow

Serdar Berdimuhamedow
Serdar Berdimuhamedow
	Berdimuhamedow in 2025
3rd President of Turkmenistan
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 19 March 2022
Vice President	Raşit Meredow
Preceded by	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Governor of Ahal
	In office; 17 June 2019 – 7 February 2020
Preceded by	Tangahuly Atakhallyev
Succeeded by	Ýazmuhammet Gurbanowa
Member of the Assembly of Turkmenistan
	In office; 23 November 2016 – 2 January 2019
Constituency	25th district
President
Former government positions
Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers for Economics and Finance
	In office; 9 July 2021 – 19 March 2022
President	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Preceded by	Position established
Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers for Innovation and Digitisation
	In office; 11 February 2021 – 9 July 2021
Minister of Industry and Construction Materials
	In office; 7 February 2020 – 11 February 2021
Deputy Governor of Ahal
	In office; 2 January 2019 – 17 June 2019
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 2 April 2018 – 2 January 2019
Personal details
Born	Serdar Gurbangulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow; 22 September 1981; Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	TDP
Children	4
Parents	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (father); Ogulgerek Berdimuhamedowa (mother);
Education	Turkmen Agricultural University; Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Geneva Centre for Security Policy; Academy of Sciences;
Military service
Allegiance	Turkmenistan
Branch/service	Turkmen Ground Forces
Years of service	2001–2003
Rank	Army general

Serdar Gurbangulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (born 22 September 1981) is a Turkmenistani politician who is currently serving as the third and current president of Turkmenistan since 2022. Berdimuhamedow had previously served in several other positions within the government of his father, Gurbanguly, the long-standing authoritarian ruler of Turkmenistan. The father and son entered into a power-sharing arrangement in 2022, through which they jointly rule a totalitarian dictatorship in Turkmenistan.

In 2021, he became one of several deputy chairmen in the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan. The next year, he won 73 percent of the vote in the country's presidential election, considered to be a sham election, succeeding his father's 18-year-long totalitarian tenure as president and making Turkmenistan the first modern country in Central Asia to be ruled by a dynastic system.