Samir Rauf oghlu Sharifov (; born 7 September 1961) is an
Azerbaijan
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i politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan (since 2025), former
Minister of Finance of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2006-2025).
Early life
Sharifov was born on 7 September 1961. In 1983, he graduated from
Kiev State University with a Master's degree in International Economic Relations. In 1983-1991, he worked for Soviet governmental organizations dealing with international economic relations and was based first in
Baku
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, then in
Yemen
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.
Political career
In 1991-1995, Sharifov worked as Deputy Chief of Department of International Economic Relations at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. From 1995 through 2001, he was a department director at the
Central Bank of Azerbaijan. On 3 January 2001 he was appointed Executive Director of
State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan by
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Heydar Aliyev
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. From 2003 until 2006, he also chaired the State Commission on Transparency for Exploitation of Natural Resources and Manufacturing Sector. On 18 April 2006 Sharifov was replaced by Shahmar Movsumov and was appointed
Minister of Finance of Azerbaijan.
[
In addition to being a minister, Sharifov is a member of the supervisory board of the Oil Fund of Azerbaijan and is a co-chair at Black Sea Trade and Development Bank representing the Azerbaijani side.][ He also attends meeting of Election Group of ]IMF
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and World Bank
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every year.
See also
* Cabinet of Azerbaijan
References
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1961 births
Deputy prime ministers of Azerbaijan
Finance ministers of Azerbaijan
Government ministers of Azerbaijan
Living people