Eldar Gasim oglu Nuriyev

He was born in 1955 in the city of Lankaran.

He began his career as an assistant prosecutor at the Ganja City Prosecutor's Office. In 1993, he was sent to the Baku City Prosecutor's Office for a managerial position, where he served as head of the Department for Supervision over the Execution of Laws in Internal Affairs Bodies, and subsequently worked as a senior adviser at the State and Law Department of the Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and as a senior referent at the Department for Work with Law Enforcement Bodies. From October 2000, he served as Deputy Prosecutor General, and from April 2006 to November 2019, he was head of the State Control Department of the Presidential Administration.

Since 25 December 2019, he has been Deputy Minister of Justice. He holds the highest special rank of State Justice Counsellor, 2nd Class. By a Decree dated 3 February 2016, he was appointed Chairman of the Appeal Board under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Baku State University in 1978.