Novruz Ismayil oglu Mammadov (; born 15 March 1947) is an Azerbaijani politician and translator who served as

Prime Minister of Azerbaijan The prime minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan () is the head of government of Azerbaijan. The current prime minister is Ali Asadov on 8 October 2019 following the removal of Novruz Mammadov. Due to the central role of the President of Azer ...

from April 2018 to October 2019. He previously held the title as assistant to the President for Foreign Policy Issues and Head of Department of Foreign Policy.

Early life

He was born in Nakhchivan, in the

Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, also referred to as the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, Azerbaijan SSR, Azerbaijani SSR, AzSSR, Soviet Azerbaijan or simply Azerbaijan, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent re ...

. He received a

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

Philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

in 1991 from the Azerbaijani Pedagogical Foreign Languages Institute (APFLI) of the

Azerbaijan University of Languages Azerbaijan University of Languages () is a public university in Baku, Azerbaijan. The student body consists of approximately 4,000 undergraduates and 900 graduate (master's degree) students. The university has a combined faculty of more than 700 t ...

, where he then became an instructor. In addition to Azerbaijani, he is also fluent in Russian, and French.

Career

Between 1967 and 1981, he served as an

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, and in

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. In 1992, he became the official dean of the preparatory faculty of APFLI and in 1993, became the dean of French language of APFLI, holding this position until 1997. In 1995, he became the interpreter to former

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. From 1997 to 2018, he was Head of the Department of

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of the

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. On April 21, 2018 he was appointed as the

by President

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and left office on October 8, 2019.

Awards

Azerbaijan

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 ...

(2007) *

Sharaf Order The Sharaf Order (), translated as the ''Order of Honor'', is an order of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It was ratified by Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, on 16 February 2007, by Decree No. 248-IIIQ. Status The Sharaf Order of the Repu ...

(2017) * Rank of Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary (2002)

Foreign Awards

* Legion d’Honneur (

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, 1998) * Polish Legion of Honor (

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, 2009) *Order of Legion d’Honneur (

, 2019)

Publications

Novruz Mammadov authored over 20

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s and several books, including more than 300 articles dedicated to the political and public-political issues He translated “A Myth of Terror” by Erich Feigl" into Russian in 2000 and French in 2001.

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