Born: 1982, Baku city, Azerbaijani.

Education:

2002 Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Auditing, Azerbaijan Cooperation University.

2004 Master's degree in Accounting and Auditing, Azerbaijan Cooperation University.

2012 Ph.D. in Economics, Supreme Attestation Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 

2011 Doctoral research project on the formation and management of economic expectations, Columbia University, United States.

2013-2014 Postdoctoral Program on Economic Governance and Institutional Reforms in Transition Economies, Johns Hopkins University, United States.

2020 Eight-month special education program on implementing economic policy for leaders at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Professional career:

2001 Treasurer, Atlantbank.

2005-2007 Research Assistant, Economic Reforms Research Institute of the Ministry of Economic Development.

2007-2008 Leading Specialist, Documentary Operations Department, Kapital Bank.

2008 Junior Economist, Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2008); later, Economist, Leading Economist, Senior Economist, and Head of the Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy Division in the same department.

2018-2020 Advisor to the Executive Director, World Bank.

2021-2022 Head of the Governor’s Office, Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

2022 August-September, Counsellor to Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

2022-2025 Advisor to the Executive Director, World Bank.

2025, November 3, Counsellor to the Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Married with three children.