Tursunova Ranokhon Yusupovna was born and raised in Tashkent. In 1996, she graduated with honors from the History Faculty of the Mirzo Ulugbek National University of Uzbekistan. She defended her PhD dissertation in 2000 in the specialty “History of the Fatherland” on the topic “Urban Self-Government in Turkestan (1877–1918).” In 2020, she completed her doctoral dissertation in the specialty “International Relations and the History of Foreign Policy” on the topic “National Self-Consciousness, Spiritual and Historical Heritage in the Formation of the Foreign Policy Identity of the Central Asian States.”

She is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, where she has been working since 2007. She is the author of 190 scientific publications, including 2 textbooks, 4 teaching manuals, and 9 monographs, with international publications in India, the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan.

She is the winner of the national contest “Best Teacher – 2021” and the international competition of scientific papers and socially significant projects “Civil and Political Activity: Interethnic and Interfaith Relations in the Regions of Central Asia and the Greater Altai” (2022). She is also a Candidate for Master of Sports.