Ulugbek Atabayevych Khasanov is the Head of the Department of International Relations at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and also serves as the Head of the Laboratory of Regional Security and Conflict Studies.

His research expertise includes studying regional security across various regions including China-Central Asia, Russia-Central Asia, and USA-Central Asia, as well as issues related to water and food security, development of the rural sector, and social development in Central Asia.

Ulugbek Khasanov has two decades of research and teaching experience at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, and has held multiple roles within the Presidential Administration and Cabinet of Ministers. Notably, between 2009-2011, he served as the press secretary (state adviser) for the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

From 1991-2000, he engaged in international trade. Ulugbek Khasanov served as a food production and agricultural development consultant at the Geneva office of Marc Rich Investments Ltd. in Central Asia and as an assistant to the regional trader at the Paris representative office of Sucres et Denrees group.

He is a graduate of Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 2003, he defended his thesis for the candidate of political science degree, titled "Regional security and national interests (context of Central Asian countries)", at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation. He graduated from the Transition to Market Economy course of the Japan International Cooperation Agency in Tokyo in 1997. In 2004-2005, Ulugbek Khasanov participated in the visiting scholar program at the University of California, Berkeley.

From 2018-2021, Khasanov led the Uzbek team in the UK as part of the research initiative, Research and Innovation through Global Challenges (COMPASS), which was carried out by the University of Kent and awarded grant number ES/P010849/1.

Additionally, he has been a member of the International Press Institute in Vienna since 2000 and authored monographs, educational manuals, and over 50 scientific works.