Rovnag Ibrahim oghlu Abdullayev ( az, Rövnəq İbrahim oğlu Abdullayev; born 3 April 1965 in
Nakhchivan,
Azerbaijan
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) is the CEO of the
SOCAR
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic ( az, Azərbaycan Respublikası Dövlət Neft Şirkəti), largely known as SOCAR is fully state-owned national oil and gas company headquartered in Baku, Azerbaijan. The company produces oil and na ...
oil company
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and has been president of the
Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan
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since 2008. He is a member of
National Assembly of Azerbaijan
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.
[Rovnag Abdullayev elected AFFA President]
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Career
He was born on April 4, 1965 in
Nakhchivan. Abdullayev received his degree in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Industrial and Civil Engineering of
Moscow State University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
of Civil Engineering in 1989.
[Biography in National Parliament's site]
In 1989, Abdullayev began working for the Neft Dashlari Oil and Gas Production Department of the Caspian Sea Oil & Gas Production Association. He continued to work there as an engineer until his appointment as Head of the Industrial Engineering Division of Construction and Mounting Department, Number Three, of Caspian Sea Oil & Gas Construction Trust. He later acted as their Chief Engineer between 1991 and 1994. Between 1997 and 2003 he was Manager of the Caspian Sea Oil & Gas Construction Trust before moving on to be the director of the Heydar Aliyev Baku Oil Refinery, previously known as Azerneftyanajag, until 2005.
He was
Neftchi Baku's president from 2004 to 2008.
Footnotes
External links
Rovnag Abdullayev's profile
1965 births
Living people
People from the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
Members of the National Assembly (Azerbaijan)
Neftçi PFK
Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan
SOCAR
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