Nargiz Hajiyeva

Dr. Nargiz Hajiyeva is a political scientist, Swiss Federal Excellence Scholarship Holder, US Weiser Award Holder and Weiser Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan She is also the “Director of Organization of Scientific Activities” Unit and the Chair of Women Researchers Council – Research Center and a part-time academic instructor on “Political Science”, and “Political Leadership and Organizational Behavior”courses at Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC).
Dr. Hajiyeva is the first female political scientist from Azerbaijan serves also as the Co-Director of “Empirical Methods” Working Group at the Swiss Political Science Association in Bern, Switzerland. She is a research fellow and a member of Democracy NET – Scholar Network of the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Mrs. Hajiyeva is an honored graduate student at Vytautas Magnus University and Institute D’etudes de Politique de Grenoble, Sciences PO. She got a bachelor degree with the merit diploma at Baku State University from International Relations and Diplomacy program. Her main research fields concern on international security and foreign policy issues, energy security, cultural and political history, global political economy, and international law. She worked as an independent researcher at Corvinus University of Budapest, Cold War History Research Center. She was also a successful participator of International Student Essay Contest, Stimson Institute, on how to prevent the proliferation of the world’s most dangerous weapons, held by Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School and an honored alumnus of European Academy of Diplomacy in Warsaw Poland. She is a holder of different academic scholarships and grants in Europe. She served as an Adviser and the First Responsible Chairman In International and Legal Affairs at the Executive Power of Ganja. At that time, she was defined to the position of Chief Economist at the Heydar Aliyev Center. Since June 2017, Ms. Hajiyeva has been working as an independent diplomatic researcher at International Relations Institute of Prague under the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Czech Republic. In 2019, Mrs. Hajiyeva has also served as a juror at Innovation in Politics İnstitution based in Vienna, Austria. She speaks Azerbaijani, English, French, German, Russian, Turkish and a bit Lithuanian.
 
More information on Dr. Hajiyeva’s Affiliations: 
1.) WCEE-UM
2.) Azerbaijan State University of Economics 
3.) Women Researchers Council (WRC)