Hikmat Hajiyev
(Confirmed)
Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan - Head of the Department of Foreign Policy Affairs
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Kubanychbek Omuraliev
(Confirmed)
Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS)
Vusal Gasimli
(Confirmed)
Executive Director of the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication of Azerbaijan and Professor of Economics
Fariz Ismailzade
Director of the Institute for Development and Diplomacy (IDD) (Azerbaijan)
Farid Shafiyev
Chairman of the Center of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center) (Azerbaijan)
Ramazan Erdağ
(Confirmed)
Chairman of the Center for Strategic Research (SAM) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye
Adilbek Yermekbaev
Director of the Center for Regional Studies of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan)
Balazs Hendrch
Head of the Representation Office of the Organization of Turkic States (Hungary)
Vusal Gasimli
Executive Director of the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication of Azerbaijan and Professor of Economics
Biography
Vusal Gasimli serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication of Azerbaijan and is Professor of Economics. In 2021, he was appointed as the Focal Point for UNESCAP. Prior to this role, he contributed to major projects with international organizations including EU, WB and JICA. Prof. Gasimli earned his first Master’s degree from UNEC in 1997, followed by a second Master’s from GIPA in 2004. He completed his PhD in Economics in 2009 and was awarded a Doctor of Economic Sciences degree in 2017. In 2021, he graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Executive Education program. Most recently, in 2022-2023, he earned Postgraduate Diploma from the University of Oxford.