Muxtar Bahadur oglu Babayev

Muxtar Bahadur oglu Babayev was born in Baku in 1967 and completed his secondary education in Baku in 1984. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Azerbaijan State Economic Institute and the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade. He served in the military from 1986 to 1988.

He began his career in 1991 at the State Committee for Economy and Planning. From 1992 to 1994, he served as deputy head and head of a department at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations; from 1994 to 2003, as head of a department and deputy head of the Department of Foreign Economic Relations of the State Oil Company; and from 2003 to 2006, as deputy head and subsequently head of the Department of Marketing and Economic Operations.

From 2007 to 2010, he was Vice-President of the State Oil Company for Environmental Affairs, and since 2010 he has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Azerikimya Production Association.

On April 23, 2018, he was appointed Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Source: Oxu.az.