Parviz Ogtay oglu Shahbazov

Parviz Ogtay oglu Shahbazov was born on November 24, 1969, in Baku. He studied at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy from 1986 to 1992 and completed military service in 1988–1989.

In 1990, he began his diplomatic career at the Department of International Economic Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1992 to 1996, he worked as an attaché at the Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1996 to 2001, he held various positions at the ministry’s Department of Relations with Europe, the United States and Canada. From 2001 to 2005, he served as counsellor and later chargé d’affaires at the Embassy in Austria. In 2005, he was elected Chairman of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation.

From 2005 to 2016, he served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to Germany, and from 2016 to 2017, as Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On October 12, 2017, he was appointed Minister of Energy of the Republic of Azerbaijan.