Shipping Management specialist with a background as a junior Captain. He received his master's degree in Shipping Management and Logistics from World Maritime University.
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is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. His research focuses on minority ethnonationalism and ethnic mobilization.
Studied international relations and diplomacy at Baku State University and Academy of Public Administration in Baku, was a member of the Free Thought University alternative education project team.
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is a doctoral fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin and Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. He is interested in the contemporary history of Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan.
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received his PhD in the History of Political Islam from Baku State University in 1993. He has held fellowships in Germany, Italy, France and the United States, including fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Bourse “Directeurs d’Études Associés” at the FMSH in Paris, a Fulbright Scholarship at Georgetown University, Reagan-Fascell Fellowship at the National Endowment for Democracy and visiting professorships and appointments at Sapienza-Università di Roma, UCLA and the Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes.
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received his Ph.D in Philosophy from Heidelberg University. Currently, he works at Khazar University as a lecturer.
He is an Associate Professor at ADA University. His areas of expertise are public policy in the post-Soviet republics; democracy and governance; and urban development and planning. He is the author of numerous articles and his research has appeared in journals such as Problems of Post Communism; Communist and Post-Communist Studies; Eurasian Geography and Economics; Cultural Geographies; Cities, Urban Geography, International Politics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies and others.
Aneta Strzemżalska is an associate researcher and a PhD candidate at the European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia (expected degree: PhD in political anthropology on a subject “Mugham, Meykhana, Jazz. National Identity in Contemporary Azerbaijan”). She is a regular contributor to “New Eastern Europe”, a bimonthly news journal which focuses on Central/Eastern European affairs.
is a sociology graduate student at the Institute of Social Science of the Eskisehir Anatolian University, Turkey. He received his bachelor degree in History from the Baku State University, Azerbaijan.
is a PhD student in History at the Humboldt University of Berlin
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Aude Merlin is Professor of Political Science at the University in the City of Brussels (ULB). Her research focuses on social, political and identity transformations in post-Soviet space, particularly in Russia and the Caucasus.
received her LLM in Comparative Constitutional Law at Central European University. She is the founder of the Tribunat legal platform.
is an MA in Special and Inclusive Education at the University of Nottingham. She has fourteen years of experience as a secondary school teacher, four years of experience as a teacher trainer in educational projects, and two years of experience as an educational specialist in an international organization.
Aysel Sultan is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for Addiction Research of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. She holds BA degree from Baku State University, MSW from Vytautas Magnus University, and a PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt. Sultan is also co-editor of peer-reviewed international journal "Drugs and Alcohol Today" and a recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship by the Minerva Foundation.
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holds a PhD in Economics. He is the Chairman of the Support for Economic Initiatives Center.
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received his MA in International Relations from Central European University, and is currently a doctoral student in political science at Charles University. His research focuses on hegemony and political discourses in Azerbaijan based on post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theories. Other interests include identity, political stability, and populism.
is teaching Philosophy and History at the French School of Baku. Graduated from the Sorbonne and the ENS of Lyon, he is, since 2017, traveling and working in Iran, Egypt, and Azerbaijan.
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is an independent researcher, journalist, writer, and Azerbaijani translator of Arthur Schopenhauer's "Eristic Dialectics". He is member of Baku Research Institute and has appeared in Eurasianet, BNE Intellinews, OC Media, France24, VOA Azerbaijani and other outlets.
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is a math teacher. She is currently working toward her master's degree in Educational Management at Vytautas Magnus University.
graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of Baku Eurasian University. He is the author of the book "New Authoritarianism and Azerbaijan" and several articles on international relations.
is a composer and publicist. He has received multiple international fellowships and scholarships from such organizations as Pro Helvetia, DAAD, Goethe Institute. Elmir Mirzoev's music was performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Ensemble de Ereprijis, Ensemble Accroche Note, Freiburg Percussion Ensemble, Ensemble Reconsil Wien, Studio for new Music Ensemble Moscow and others.
Poet and literary historian.
Elnura Jivazada, an independent translator. She studied International Relations at Baku State University as well as Political Science and Eastern European History at Eichstätt and Mainz Universities, respectively.
received his PhD from the Lyon Institute of Political Studies. He currently teaches at the Université Lumière Lyon 2.
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studied Islamic philosophy at the Al-Mustafa International University in Qom, Iran. He translated numerous works of acclaimed philosophers into Azerbaijani language.
received his Bachelor's degree in Finance from Azerbaijan State University of Economics and his Master's degree in Economic Policy from Istanbul University.
is currently M.S. student in Economics at the University of Trier, Germany. He previously received his joint master degree in Finance from Vytautas Magnus University of Lithuania and University of Vaasa of Finland.
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is a graduate of King’s College London and ESSEC BBA.
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is a PhD candidate in History at Central European University. Her research deals with confessional Relations in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Constantinople and its aftermath. She is also a Gerda-Henkel research fellow.
is a policy analyst. He holds a master's degree in Political Science from the University of Vytautas Magnus (2016), a professional master's degree in Terrorism and Countering Religious Radicalization from the University of Bergamo (2021), and another master's degree in Defense and Diplomacy from the University of Durham (2022). His primary focus areas are the South Caucasus and Middle East regions.
graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Baku Slavic University. He is a political activist and a former prisoner of conscience.
received BA degree from Hitotsubashi University, Japan and MA degree from Konstanz University, Germany
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is a researcher at ANAS, Institute of Oriental Studies named after Z.M.Bunyadov. He graduated from the Faculty of Theology of Baku State University. He received his master’s degree in philosophy and theology from Suleyman Demirel University in Turkey.
is a graduate of International Business Development and Emerging Economies at King's College London. She taught "Economic Development Models" at Azerbaijan State Economic University and Khazar University.
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Doctoral student in political philosophy at the University of Milan.
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is studying a master's degree in International Relations and European Politics at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic.
Ingilab Ahmadov, PhD. in economics, professor, director of the Eurasia Extractive Industries Knowledge Hub at Khazar University.
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is a distinguished Azerbaijani historian. He was a professor at the Baku Sate University and Khazar university of Azerbaijan. His publications include the monographs "The Sovietization of Azerbaijan. The South Caucasus in the Triangle of Russia, Turkey, and Iran, 1920–1922" (The University of Utah Press, 2017), "Foreign Policy of the Republic of Azerbaijan: The Difficult Road to Western Integration, 1918-1920" (Routledge, 2015), "Khrushchev's Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954–1959" (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, 2014) and many others translated and published in many languages
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Javid Nabiyev is a refugee in Germany. As a scholar in the OLIve-Plus Program, he is studying Public Policy and Human Rights at Bard College Berlin. As an International Advocacy officer at Nafas LGBT Azerbaijan Alliance, he works with UN human rights and development mechanisms. In 2016, he received an award from the British Council as global LGBTI rights influencer.
is a Professor Emeritus of Iranian and Central Asian History, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College.
Is a graduate of the Law Faculty of Baku State University. He works in the field of human rights.
is a former columnist at Yeni Musavat daily newspaper, Azerbaijan. He received his BA from the Azerbaijani State University of Art and Culture. Kenan is currently pursuing a graduate degree in religious sociology at the Ankara Yildirim Beyazid University of Turkey.
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is a doctoral candidate on law and political philosophy at the European University Institute.
is a 2015-2017 Fulbright Scholarship recipient. She is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago`s Women`s Studies and Gender Studies MA Degree program. After graduating WSGS program, she started to work at Apna Ghar, one of the Domestic Violence organizations in Chicago providing advocacy for DV survivors and their families.
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Laurence Broers is an associate fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, and the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Caucasus Survey. He is the author of Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry (2019).
is an LSE alumnus and an economist who worked as a corporate trainer in Russia and Ukraine. In Azerbaijan, he teaches at Dünya IB school and provides Corporate/Business English training at SOCAR.
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is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Her research has focused on the post-socialist transition in Azerbaijan, especially urban change, nationalism, and social consequences of the post-Soviet industrial restructuring.
graduated from Chechen-Ingush University in Grozny. In 1995 he defended his dissertation titled Chechnya in the Caucasian War (1816-1859) at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is an editor of the journal Caucasus Survey published by Routledge.
Author of analytical researches and special projects related to the problems of resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Vytautas Magnus University. His research is about postcolonialism, ethnicity and nationalism in the case of Azerbaijan. He holds a joint Master’s degree in East European Studies from University of Bologna and Corvinus University of Budapest and another Master's degree in Nationalism Studies from Central European University.
is a former official with the National Security Council of Mongolia and a graduate of Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Murad Ismayilov is currently completing his PhD at Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies (PPSIS) at the University of Cambridge. He also holds an M.St. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge (2009) and an M.A. in International Relations from Baku State University (2004).
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is currently a PhD candidate at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany. Before starting his PhD study, he worked for non-governmental organizations in Azerbaijan for more than six years and taught politics for a short period at local universities. He holds a master degree in European Politics from the University of Manchester and a bachelor degree in International Relations from the Academy of Public Administration located in Baku.
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is a doctoral candidate at Charles University Department of Public and Social Policy. His research area is civil society development and organizational behaviors in non-democracies, with a regional and comparative focus on the South Caucasus.
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studied at Baku State, Columbia and Western İllinois Universities. He was the head of the International Relations Department of the State Committee for Work with Religious Asssociations of Azerbaijani Republic. Currently he is the head of the International Cooperation Department at the Ministry of Education.
is a development economist. He specializes in the design, monitoring and evaluation of social-economic development policies and programs. He provides training and consulting services for government, non-government and private sector organizations in social-economic programing, and teaches at universities in Azerbaijan on economic development and political economy.
Lawyer, LL.M. graduate of International and European Law, University of Saarland.
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received her BA degree from Law School of Baku State University and LLM degree on in Transnational Crime and Justice from The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) in Turin, İtaly. Currently, philosophy of science is her primary research subject.
is a graduate of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Kolleg for Good Governance. She is a PhD student in feminist political science at the University of Marburg, Germany.
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In 2011, he graduated from the Faculty of English Language and Literature of Azerbaijan University of Languages. In 2017, he received his M.A. degree from the Faculty of Journalism and Media Management, Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA).
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is a PhD Student in Contemporary History at the University of Strasbourg.
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is currently studying his Master's degree in Philosophy at Ondokuz Mayıs University in Turkey.
She is a master student in International Development and Management at Lund University.
is a mid-career international development practitioner. He received his Master of International Development Policy degree from Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy and his B.A in History with high distinction from Baku State University
Rail Safiyev teaches at the Comparative Politics Department, University of Bergen in Norway. He holds PhD in Political Science from Free University of Berlin.
Rashad Aliyev is a graduate of the Faculty of International Relations at Baku State University and the Master's Program in Public Administration at the University of Maryland. He has worked in the World Bank's Washington office, the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan and the legal department of the US Embassy in Azerbaijan on projects such as combating corruption and money laundering, as well as judicial and police reform.
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is an award-winning Azerbaijani journalist and political analyst. In 2005, he was named the Honored Journalist of Azerbaijan. In 2008, he received the Gerd Bucerius Free Press of Eastern Europe award for achievements in the development of independent media. A former political prisoner, he is currently living in exile in Europe.
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is a French journalist based in Tbilisi since 2002 and covering the former Soviet Union for Radio France Internationale (RFI), France 24 TV, Le Figaro, etc. He is the author of three books, among them “Poutine et le Caucase” (“Putin and the Caucasus”, 2014).
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is an independent scholar and translator based in Tbilisi, Georgia. He received an MA in Slavic Lingustics from UCLA, where he also studied Azerbaijani language and history.
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American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University and was president of the American Philosophical Association.
graduate of the Azerbaijani State Economic University and one of the nation’s leading scholars of economics, he is a Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Support for Economic Initiatives Center.
graduated from Baku Slavic University in Hellenic Studies. He translated six of Plato’s dialogues into Azerbaijani (Euthyphro, Apology, Phaedo, Crito, Theaetetus, and Statesman), as well as nine articles by Michel Foucault, which were published in a collection entitled Power / Discipline / Society. He is also the author of Intro: A History of Rap.
is an undergraduate at Princeton University concentrating in History. He is an IPF Atid Policy Fellow at Israel Policy Forum and a research assistant at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy.
is a prominent civil society activist and independent researcher. He is a member of the Board of the Support for Economic Initiatives Center and "Economic Forum" Expert Group. Samir Aliyev is a frequent commentator on local and international media on issues relating to economy and civil society of Azerbaijan.
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received his MA degree in history from Baku State University (BSU). Until recently, he was a lecturer at the BSU’s Qazakh branch. Currently, Samir works as a freelance researcher.
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graduated from the Faculty of State and Municipal Administration, Baku Institute of Social Administration and Political Science (now Academy of Public Administration). She works as a film critic.
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is a noted Azerbaijani journalist and political commentator. He received his MA in Political Science from the State Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan .
studied at Azerbaijani Medical University as an undergraduate student between 2004 and 2010. From 2011 to 2016 he studied at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology/Hand Surgery of Ibn Sina University Hospital, Ankara University, Turkey and received his MD in 2016. He is a founding member of the “Liberal Thought Association.” Currently, he works as a traumatologist in Baku.
Ph.D. in History. She is a former vice rector of Baku State University. Currently, she is a researcher at the Kennan Institute of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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Independent researcher. His main research areas include multidisciplinary research on the South Caucasus and Eurasia at large, conflict and peace sciences.
is an associate professor in political science and an affiliated researcher at Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests include religious-, political- and civic mobilization and elections in the post-Soviet sphere.
studied philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She is currently a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Vienna.
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is a graduate of Baku State University. He is an independent economist.
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PhD researcher at European University Institute. She is an alumna of Central European University (M.A. in Comparative History), Baku State University (M.A. and B.A. in American Studies) and Fulbright Program.
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Turkhan Sadigov received his PhD in Political Science from SUNY in 2016. He is interested in the impact of political culture, informality, and collectively shared ideas on citizen pro-activism and the development of political institutions in post-Soviet societies. He has published articles in journals such as the Journal of Civil Society, East European Politics, and Problems of Post-Communism, among others.
is lecturer in history and international relations at the University of Geneva and at Webster University Geneva. He is the author of War and Peace in the Caucasus, Russia’s Troubled Frontier (2009), and his latest book is Open Wounds, Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide (2015).
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Head of Shanghai Office at AZEGLOB Consulting Group. He is also a Policy Expert at the Topchubashov Center and an Associate Research Fellow at Khazar University in Baku.
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is an Instructor in Social Sciences at ADA University in Baku. She received a master's degree in Gender Studies from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. In 2016-2017 she was a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow studying Public Policy Analysis and Public Administration at Syracuse University.
studied International Relations, International Law and History in Baku, Berlin, and Eichstätt. In 2009, Dr. Gasimov completed his doctorate in History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Since September 2013, Dr. Gasimov has been a research fellow at the Orient-Institut Istanbul
is a lawyer and blogger. He graduated from the law schools of Baku State University in 2007 and the University of Glasgow in 2017. Zaur is an alumni of Chevening Scholarship and Vaclav Havel Fellowship Programs.
is a graduate from Harvard University with a degree in Regional Studies (2021). She is currently a Fellow at Harvard University. Her main research areas are transition to democracy, authoritarian regimes, civil society, and social welfare regimes in former Soviet countries.
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He studied Regional and Environmental Economics at Corvinus University of Hungary in 2021. He was one of the local coordinators of the Besh Barmag Bird Migration Count in Azerbaijan.
received B.A. in Political Science from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and an M.Sc. in Gender and International Relations from Bristol University. She graduated from Advanced Program in European Law and Economics of Riga Graduate School of Law
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