Professional Experience



Research Fellow (team lead), King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. May 2015 – present
Visiting Research Consultant, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. February 2014 – January 2015
Director, Center for Socio-economic Research, Qafqaz University, Khirdalan, Azerbaijan. September 2012- February 2014
Deputy Director, Ministry of Economic Development, Institute for Scientific Research on Economic Reforms, Baku, Azerbaijan. April 2009 – September 2011    
Lecturer on Econometrics, Qafqaz University, 
Khirdalan, Azerbaijan. January 2008 – September 2011   
Head economist of Modeling Division of Research Department, The Central Bank of Azerbaijan, August 2006 – April 2009   
Lecturer on Mathematical methods of economics and econometrics, Eurasia University, 
Baku, Azerbaijan. March 2005 – March 2007   
Junior researcher; researcher; senior researcher, Department of Modeling socio-economic processes, Institute of Cybernetics. Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan. August 2005 – September 2011
Member, Research Program on Forecasting, The Department of Economics, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. May 2012 – Present  
Member of Editorial Board, Asian Journal of Business and Management Sciences. May 2011 – Present  
Coordinator of the Project  “Increasing Competitiveness of Non-oil sector of Azerbaijan Economy”,  Jointly organized by United Nation Development Program and Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Azerbaijan. May, 2009 – December, 2010  
Member of Local Advisory Board, Caucasus Research Resource Centers-Azerbaijan. November, 2009 - Present  
Active team member of projects for  Building and development Macroeconometric Model for Monetary Policy of National Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Organized in the National Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan by involving experts from international organizations and other central banks. September, 2006 – March, 2009  
Team leader of the grant project on “Analyzing inflation processes in the Republic of Azerbaijan”, Sponsored by Economics Education and Research Consortium in Ukraine. June, 2008 - present  
Team member of the project of “Building Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model for the Azerbaijan economy”,  The Institute for Scientific Research on Economic Reforms, The Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan Republic. August, 2006 – September, 2007  
Team member of the project of “Constructing Macroeconometric model for Azerbaijan economy”, Supported by Oxford University, The State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan. September – March, 2006