Shirzad Abdullayev

Shirzad Abdullayev, Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2018–2020), Executive Director of the National Entrepreneurship Support Fund (2008–2018), PhD in economics, professor.

Biography Shirzad Abdullayev was born on October 16, 1970, in Agdash District of Azerbaijan. He went to the secondary school at the native district. S. Abdullayev has served in the Air Defense Forces. He is married. In 2005, he pursued his education at Berlin School of Economics and German Institute of Applied Sciences in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Shirzad Abdullayev became a professor in “Finance, monetary circulation and loans” in the year of 2012. He is an author of 3 monographs, 4 manuals, 2 curricula and 1 methodical guidelines, as well as nearly 50 scientific articles. and the executive director of the National Fund for Entrepreneurship Support under the Ministry of Economy in 2008–2018. Mr. Abdullayev was appointed Deputy minister of economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan under the Decree 163 dated May 31, 2018 of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Awards Shirzad Abdullayev was awarded with a “Distinguished Public Service Medal” and a “Taraggi” medal with the Decrees of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan correspondingly dated November 12, 2012 and October 21, 2014.