Ambassador's CV

AMB. FAKHRADDIN GURBANOV

Education:

• 1975 - Graduated from Azerbaijan State University of Foreign Languages
• 1990 - Graduated from the Institute of Political Sciences, Baku
• 2001 – Completed Program on security studies at the George C. Marshall Center – European center for security studies, Germany
• 2002 - Completed Program for Senior Managers in Government (SMG), JFK School of Government, Harvard University
• 2017 - Completed Senior Executive Program on Countering Transnational Threats organized at National Defense University, Washington D.C.

Career:

• 1990-1992 – First Secretary, Director, Division for information, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 1992-1993 - Director, Department of State Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 1993-2001 - 1st Secretary and Consul, Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Washington, DC
• 1996 - Served as a President of the Consular Corps of Washington, DC
• 2001-2003 - Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 2003 - Counselor, Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Washington, DC
• 2003-2004 - Charge d’Affaires, Embassy of Azerbaijan in Ottawa, Canada
• 2004-2007 - Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Canada
• 2007-2014 - Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Accredited also to Denmark, Republic of Ireland and Island.
• 2014- 2017 - Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 2018 – Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Republic of Croatia

Awards:

- Medal for Civil Service

- Diplomat of the Year 2012 for Eurasia by DIPLOMAT magazine, London, UK

- Freeman of City of London

- Order for " Service to Motherland"

- Medal “ 90 years Anniversary of the Diplomatic Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan "

- Medal of the 100th Anniversary of the Diplomatic Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan                    

Speaks English, Turkish and Russian.

Mr. Gurbanov is married with one daughter.