Serdar Berdimuhamedow Net Worth

Background and career

Serdar Gurbangulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (born 22 September 1981) is a Turkmen politician and businessman 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 Berdimuhamedow, the long-standing totalitarian ruler of Turkmenistan. The father and son entered into a power-sharing arrangement in 2023, 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 2022 presidential election, considered to be a sham election, succeeding his father's 18-year-long authoritarian tenure as president and making Turkmenistan the first modern country in Central Asia to be ruled by a dynastic system.