Ali Hidayat oghlu Asadov (; born 30 November 1956) is an Azerbaijani politician serving as the

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following his appointment to the post on 8 October 2019 by

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Ilham Aliyev Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev (born 24 December 1961) is an Azerbaijani politician who has been the fourth president of Azerbaijan since 2003. He is also the leader of the New Azerbaijan Party since 2005. The son and second child of former Aze ...

Early life

Ali Asadov was born on 30 November 1956 in

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. In 1974 he graduated from secondary school No.134 in Baku, and entered the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in

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, from which he graduated in 1978. He served in the

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from 1978 to 1980. In 1980, he began working as a chief laboratory assistant at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. Asadov continued his education at the Institute of Economics of the

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between 1981 and 1984, where he got his post-graduate diploma in Economics. In 1989–1995, Ali Asadov worked as an associate Professor and head of the department at the Baku Institute of Social Management and Political Science.

Career

In the first Azerbaijan parliamentary

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held on 12 November 1995, Ali Asadov was elected an MP by

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for the term of 1995–2000, representing the New Azerbaijan Party. On 17 April 1998, he was appointed assistant of the Azerbaijani President for economic affairs. According to the decree of the President

dated 30 November 2012, Asadov was appointed as the deputy head of the Presidential Administration; in 2017, he was appointed an assistant of the President of Azerbaijan for economic affairs. Asadov has been considered a close ally of President Aliyev. In October 2019, following Novruz Mammadov's resignation, he was elected Prime Minister by a vote of 105 to 0. He heads the 8th Government of Azerbaijan.

Awards

* Order “For Service to the Motherland” of the second degree (2012) * Order “For Service to the Motherland” of the first degree (2016)

References

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