Ali Asadov

Minister

Birthday November 30, 1956

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union (now Baku, Azerbaijan)

Age 67 years old

Nationality Azerbaijan

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1956

Ali Hidayat oghlu Asadov (Əli Hidayət oğlu Əsədov; born 30 November 1956) is an Azerbaijani politician serving as the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan following his appointment to the post on 8 October 2019 by president Ilham Aliyev.

Ali Asadov was born on 30 November 1956 in Baku.

1974

In 1974 he graduated from secondary school No.134 in Baku, and entered the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1978.

1978

He served in the Soviet Army from 1978 to 1980.

1980

In 1980, he began working as a chief laboratory assistant at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR.

1981

Asadov continued his education at the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow between 1981 and 1984, where he got his post-graduate diploma in Economics.

1989

In 1989–1995, Ali Asadov worked as an associate Professor and head of the department at the Baku Institute of Social Management and Political Science.

1995

In the first Azerbaijan parliamentary election held on 12 November 1995, Ali Asadov was elected an MP by proportional representation for the term of 1995–2000, representing the New Azerbaijan Party.

1998

On 17 April 1998, he was appointed assistant of the Azerbaijani President for economic affairs.

2012

According to the decree of the President Ilham Aliyev dated 30 November 2012, Asadov was appointed as the deputy head of the Presidential Administration; in 2017, he was appointed an assistant of the President of Azerbaijan for economic affairs.

Asadov has been considered a close ally of President Aliyev.

2019

In October 2019, following Novruz Mammadov's resignation, he was elected Prime Minister by a vote of 105 to 0.

He heads the 8th Government of Azerbaijan.