Elnur Zabit oglu Soltanov
Deputy Minister of Energy
Biography
He was born in 1974 in the city of Mingachevir. He holds a PhD in political sciences.
From 2000 to 2003, he worked as a researcher at the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies in Türkiye. From 2004 to 2009, he taught at Texas Tech, Slippery Rock and Truman State universities in the United States. From 2009 to 2018, he worked at ADA University as a senior lecturer, director of the Caspian Energy and Environment Center, and dean of the Faculty of Public and International Relations.
He has served as Deputy Minister of Energy since 2018.
Education
From 1995 to 2003, he studied at the Faculty of International Relations of the Middle East Technical University of Türkiye, completing bachelor's and master's degrees. From 2003 to 2009, he pursued postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Texas Tech University in the United States; he holds a PhD in political sciences.