Mukhtar Bahadur oghlu Babayev (, 16 October 1967) is an Azerbaijani politician who is Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Republic. He has worked in various roles for the Azerbaijan state-owned oil company

SOCAR The State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (), largely known by its abbreviation SOCAR, is a fully state-owned national oil and gas company headquartered in Baku, Azerbaijan. The company produces oil and natural gas from onshore and o ...

since the 1990s. The Azerbaijan government appointed Babayev as president of COP29, the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Biography

Mukhtar Babayev was born on October 16, 1967, in

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. He graduated from high school in Baku in 1984 and served in the military between 1986 and 1988. In 1991, he graduated from

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

, majoring in political science. In 1994, he received bachelor degree in Foreign Economic Relations of Azerbaijan State University of Economics. In 2000, he graduated from the specialty in World Economy of

All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation (RFTA) (, ВАВТ Минэкономразвития России) is the only university which is subordinate to the Ministry of Economic Dev ...

Political career

In 1991–1992 he worked at Azerbaijan's State Committee for Economy and Planning He worked at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations in 1992-1993. He worked

, the Azerbaijan state-owned petroleum company from 1994 to 2018. From 2007 to 2010, he was the company's Vice President for Ecology. He is a member of the ruling

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. In the

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and

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Azerbaijan parliamentary elections, Babayev was elected a deputy of National Assembly of Azerbaijan Republic. While in the assembly, he was on the Natural Resources, Energy and Ecology committee. In 2013, Babayev became a member of the supervisory board of

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and left in 2020. He was appointed to the position of Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Republic on April 23, 2018. He is the head of the Azerbaijan-Japan interparliamentary relations working group, a member of the working groups on relations with the parliaments of

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, the

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, and

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. On January 7, 2024, Azerbaijan's ruler

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 ...

appointed Babayev to be president of COP29, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Awards

* Taraggi Medal — 19 September 2012 *

Shohrat Order Shohrat Order (), translated as ''Order of Glory'', is an award presented by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. History and status The order was created by the Decree No. 757 of the President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev and ratified ...

— 7 November 2017 * Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class, Gold and Silver Star — 29 April 2022

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