Serdar Berdimuhamedow

His Excellency Serdar Berdimuhamedow
Berdimuhamedow in 2022
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
Personal details
Born	Serdar Gurbangulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (1981-09-22) 22 September 1981 (age 42) 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 National Army
Years of service	2001–2003
Rank	Army general

Serdar Gurbangulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (Turkmen pronunciation: [θɛɾˈdɑɾ ɢʊɾbɑnʁʊˈlɯjɛβɪtʃ bɛɾdɯmʊxɑmɛˈdoβ]; born 22 September 1981) is a Turkmen politician serving as the third and current president of Turkmenistan since 19 March 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 whereby they jointly rule an authoritarian system of government in Turkmenistan.^[1][2]

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 neither free nor fair,^[3] succeeding his father's 15-year-long totalitarian tenure as president and making Turkmenistan the first modern country in Central Asia to be ruled by a dynastic system.