Farid Turab oglu Ahmadov

Farid Turab oglu Ahmadov was born in Baku in 1979. In 2000, he graduated from the Faculty of International Law of Baku State University with a bachelor's degree and, in 2002, with a master's degree, both with distinction. In 2004, under the British Chevening scholarship programme, he obtained a second master's degree in international human rights from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, graduating with distinction.

In 2009, he defended his dissertation at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and, by a decision of the Higher Attestation Commission, was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Law. That same year, he entered the University of Oxford on a Weidenfeld scholarship and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Law there in 2017.

From 2004 to 2006, he held various positions at the Office of the Constitutional Court, and from 2006 to 2007, at the Office of the Milli Majlis. From 2009 to 2011, he taught law at the University of Oxford, and from 2011 to 2015, he worked as an associate professor of law at ADA University. From 2015 to 2017, he was rector of Azerbaijan University.

From 2017 to 2020, he served as Deputy Director General of the Port of Baku International Sea Trade Port. In 2021, he was appointed adviser to the Minister of Digital Development and Transport, and in 2022, Deputy Minister of that ministry. From 2023 to February 2024, he was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee.

On February 27, 2024, by an Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, he was appointed Minister of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan.