Board of directors

Chairman: Mammad Talibli

He was born in 1973. He has been working at Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC) since 2002. He has been working in the civil society sector since 2002. In 2004-2005, he worked as an expert in the monitoring group of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and the Audit group of the South Caucasus Gas Pipeline. He was represented in several coalitions and working groups. He worked as an expert and coordinator in dozens of local and international socio-economic projects. He participated in various meetings and trainings related to budget policy in the US State Department, State Treasury, Congressional Budget Office, New America Foundation. He gave lectures on various topics of economy in many universities (UNEC, ASCC, LSU, AU, BEU, Anadolu University). A large number of scientific works have been published abroad and in the country. In 2006, he was awarded a place in the “Teachers who don’t take bribes” competition held by the “Dalga” movement for higher schools. In 2018, he participated in the teacher exchange program at Anadolu University of Turkey within the ERASMUS program and gave lectures on “Energy Policy”. He is one of the co-authors of a textbook (“Business organization and management”, 2008). He is also the author of three books (“Human value in economics”, “Science-book-teacher triangle”, “Economic vector and strategic choice”). A large number of scientific articles and theses of the author have been published in the country and abroad. He participated in events related to various economic topics in several countries (USA, Turkey, Georgia and others). Since 2012, the Institute for Economic Analysis has taken a serious initiative for the creation of the Public Union and its state registration for many years. The institute was registered with the state in 2022 based on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, after passing the local court instances. He is the co-founder and chairman of the Institute for Economic Analysis.

Vice chairman: Hasan Rahimli

He was born in Lankaran in 1993. He graduated from UNEC with honors and is currently studying for a doctorate in the doctoral program in economics at LSU. He received additional education in political economy, philosophy and psychology at local and foreign universities. He has an international certificate in economic psychology (behavioral economics) and economic philosophy. He worked as a teacher in several universities (Lankara State University, Khazar University, Academy of State Customs Committee, Azerbaijan University, Western University). The main scientific interest includes macroeconomics, behavioral economics (economic psychology), institutional economics, philosophical and ethical (moral) problems of economy. At the same time, he is an expert on “economic analysis” of the Small and Medium Business Development Agency of the Ministry of Economy. Since 2017, he has been working as a professional trainer on economic, philosophical and psychological topics in various governmental and non-governmental organizations. He was an expert in various projects of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Youth Foundation of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He has acted as a speaker at hundreds of scientific seminars and conferences. He is the author of more than 10 scientific articles and theses published in local and international scientific journals. He is a researcher and deputy chairman of the Institute for Economic Analysis.

Nijat Gasim

Nijat Gasim was born in 1988 in Kalbajar district. In 2006, he was admitted to the Economic-Cybernetics of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics of Baku State University. After completing his bachelor’s degree in 2010, he was admitted to the Master’s degree in Econometrics at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Dokuz Eylül University of the Republic of Turkey. After graduating in 2013 with his research work in the field of Bayesian Econometrics, he worked in various research works on Linear and Non-linear time series analysis in 2013-2016. Since 2016, he has received a Ph.D. degree in economics for his research on time-varying parameter models at the doctoral level of Dogguz Eylül University. Over the years, the author has presented econometric research reports at more than ten international scientific symposium. He has an article published in international scientific journals. At the same time, he is engaged in the translation of books written on econometric studies into Turkish and Azerbaijani languages. He is the translator of the book “Dynamic Analysis of Economic and Legal Variables”, published in Turkey in 2014, authored by Valery Turukhov and Farhad Rahmanov. He took part in the translation team of the book “A Introdoctory to Econometrics, A modern Approach” written by Wooldridge into Azerbaijani, translated the book “Applied Econometrics” written by Dimitrios Asteriou and Stephan Hall into Azerbaijani. In addition to his scientific research at the university, he conducts trainings on Biostatistics and Econometric studies to various private and public hospitals and companies on the basis of a service contract. In his research, he uses programs such as EViews, Stata, Minitab, SPSS, Gauss, Oxmetrics, NCSS, Gretl, R and Python extensively. He is married and has a child.