Sahiba Ali gizi Gafarova (; born 19 March 1955) is an Azerbaijani politician and academic. She is chairwoman of the

National Assembly of Azerbaijan The National Assembly (), also transliterated as Milli Mejlis, is the legislative branch of government in Azerbaijan. The unicameral National Assembly has 125 deputies: previously 100 members were elected for five-year terms in single-seat co ...

since 2020.

Biography

Gafarova was born on March 19, 1955, in Samkhor (Shamkir). She graduated from Faculty of Russian Language and Literature of Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Russian Language and Literature and Faculty of English Philology of Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. In 1978–1981 she worked as a secondary school teacher in Shamkir. In 1981–2020 she worked as a laboratory assistant, teacher, senior teacher, associate professor, professor of Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Russian Language and Literature, dean of Western languages faculty of Western University, head of European languages department of

Baku Slavic University Baku Slavic University (BSU) () is a public university located in Baku, Azerbaijan. At the university, specializing in the study of Slavic and German languages, diplomats, philologists-teachers, translators of Russian, Polish, Czech, English, Ge ...

. In 2004–2020, Gafarova worked as Vice-Rector for International Relations of Baku Slavic University. From 2006 to 2007, she was at the

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Institute for Women and Gender Studies under the

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's Fulbright Scholarship Program. In 2015–2020, she served as Deputy Chairwoman of Committee on Family, Women and Children of National Assembly. From 2013 to 2015, she chaired the subcommittees of

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and

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and

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. From 2015–2017, she was a Political Coordinator of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's "Women Free from Violence" Parliamentary Network, Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Chairwoman of the Committee on

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s and IDP of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and member of the Bureau. In 2018–2020, she was the head of Azerbaijani delegation to the

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. Gafarova has been a member of

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since 2004, and a deputy of 4th, 5th and 6th convocations of Milli Majlis.

Awards

* Honored Teacher of the Republic of Azerbaijan — 14 December 2016. * Order "Hyzmatdaşlygy ösdürmäge goşandy üçin"

References

External links

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Official twitter account of Sahib Gafarov
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Sahib Gafarov's official Facebook page
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