Azer Kamal oglu Amiraslanov (, born July 19, 1971) is the Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy, Industry and Entrepreneurship of the National Assembly of the

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Biography

Azer Amiraslanov was born on July 19, 1971, in

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. In 1978–1988, he went to secondary school No. 158 in Baku. In 1988, he was admitted to the

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. After graduating with honors, he was accepted by the Graduate School of the Institute of Economy at the

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in 1993.

Career

In 1993–1994, he served as a senior economist at the Central Bank of Azerbaijan and at the Joint-Stock Commercial Agro-Industrial Bank. In 1994–1998, he was a senior consultant of the Economic Legislation Department of the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Milli Majlis). From 1998 to 2000, he worked as a consultant in the Economic Policy Department at the Presidential Administration. In 2001–2003, he was the director of the Centre for Economic Analysis and Consulting, in 2003–2004, he worked as a senior economist on macroeconomic policy issues at the Agency for German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). He served as a member of the Executive Board at the "Ata Holding" Group of Companies and was a director of the Department of Strategy and Business Development from 2004 to 2005. In 2005–2008, he was a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan. By the

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dated May 16, 2007, he was appointed as a member of the Supervisory Board of the

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and continued his activity in the Board from 2007 to 2008. By the presidential decree dated August 25, 2008, he was appointed to the head of the department of agrarian policy issues at the administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He was appointed to the assistant to the president for agrarian

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issues – head of the department by the presidential decree dated May 31, 2017. He worked in this position until November 29, 2019. By the

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decree dated December 4, 2019, he was appointed to the position of the head of the Department of Economy of the Office of

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of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He is the first degree state adviser. Since 2024, he has been a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the chairman of the Parliament's Committee for Economic Policy, Industries and Enterprising.

Parliamentary activity

In 2005, he was elected to the Parliament (

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) of the

from

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city constituency No. 98. He was also a deputy chairman of the Permanent Parliamentary Committee on Economic Policy. He chaired Azerbaijan–

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Inter-parliamentary Relations Working Group and was a member of Azerbaijan-

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, Azerbaijan-

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, Azerbaijan-

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and Azerbaijan-

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Inter-parliamentary Relations Working Groups. He was also a member of the delegation of Azerbaijan and the

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Parliamentary Cooperation and was also a member of the Azerbaijani delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of CIS. After the appointment to the head of the department at the

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, his parliamentary powers were terminated by the decision of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 2024, he was elected to the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan from Agstafa constituency No. 108. He is the head of the Working Group for the Azerbaijani-Tunisia Interparliamentary Relations.

Academic activity

In 1996, he successfully defended his dissertation on "The problems of state regulation of the economy in a market relations condition" at the Institute of Economy at the

and obtained the

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Degree (Ph.D.) in

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. He is the author of 6 books and more than 50 scientific articles. He published over 300 analytical and economic articles in the local and international press. He closely participated in the development of several programs and concepts, and draft laws related to the economic and agricultural sectors. In 2001–2002, he taught the course on "

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" in English at Western University and the Azerbaijan State University of Languages. In 2008-2017, he was a lecturer of

. Since 2019, he has been the head of the Department of State Regulation of the Economy at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

International experience

In 2000, within the international program of IREX, he conducted research on "

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and

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" at the

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of U.S., and explored the experiences of

management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

of the

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. He attended and presented a number of reports at various seminars, conferences and business meetings organized in the

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and

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. He received certificates from organizations such as

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(IMF), Bilkent University (Turkey), Institute for Public-Private Partnership (USA),

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(USAID), IREX,

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(JICA), and United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI).

Public activity

In 1993, he founded the Association of Young Economists. Since 2007, he has been the President of the Economic Reforms Foundation. Azer Amiraslanov is fluent in English, Russian and Turkish.

Personal life

He is married and has two children.

References

External links

Azer Amiraslanov's biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amiraslanov, Azer 20th-century Azerbaijani economists Academic staff of the Azerbaijan State University of Economics Azerbaijan State University of Economics alumni Members of the National Assembly (Azerbaijan) 1971 births Living people 21st-century Azerbaijani economists Academics from Baku