Novruz Mammadov

Novruz Mammadov
Novruz Mammadov
Novruz Məmmədov
	Mammadov in 2013
9th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
	In office; 21 April 2018 – 8 October 2019
President	Ilham Aliyev
Deputy	Yaqub Eyyubov
Preceded by	Artur Rasizade
Succeeded by	Ali Asadov
Personal details
Born	15 March 1947 (age 77); Nakhchivan District, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	New Azerbaijan Party
Alma mater	Azerbaijan University of Languages
Website	Official website; Personal Twitter;

Novruz Ismayil oglu Mammadov (Azerbaijani: Novruz İsmayıl oğlu Məmmədov; born 15 March 1947) is an Azerbaijani politician and translator who served as Prime Minister of Azerbaijan from April 2018 to October 2019. He previously held the title as assistant to the President for Foreign Policy Issues and Head of Department of Foreign Policy.^[1]

Early life

He was born in Nakhchivan, in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. He received a PhD in Philology in 1991 from the Azerbaijani Pedagogical Foreign Languages Institute (APFLI) of the Azerbaijan University of Languages, where he then became an instructor.

In addition to Azerbaijani, he is also fluent in Russian, and French.

Career

Between 1967 and 1981, he served as an interpreter in Algeria, and in Guinea. In 1992, he became the official dean of the preparatory faculty of APFLI and in 1993, became the dean of French language of APFLI, holding this position until 1997. In 1995, he became the interpreter to former Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev. From 1997 to 2018, he was Head of the Department of Foreign Relations of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan. On April 21, 2018 he was appointed as the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan by President Ilham Aliyev and left office on October 8, 2019.

Awards

Azerbaijan

Shohrat Order (2007)
Sharaf Order (2017)
Rank of Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary (2002)

Foreign Awards

Legion d’Honneur (France, 1998)
Polish Legion of Honor (Poland, 2009)
Order of Legion d’Honneur (France, 2019)^[2]

Publications

Novruz Mammadov authored over 20 scientific articles and several books, including more than 300 articles dedicated to the political and public-political issues

He translated “A Myth of Terror” by Erich Feigl" into French in 2001.