Azerbaijan's ambassador to US to discuss changing dynamics

3:09 p.m., Dec. 1, 2014--Elin Suleymanov Emin oğlu, the Republic of Azerbaijan’s ambassador to the United States, will address the University of Delaware community at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 2, in Room 104 of the Center for Composite Materials. 

The public lecture, titled “Changing Dynamics in the Eurasian Region and Azerbaijan,” will broadly focus on international relations, political science, business, economics and energy in the context of Azerbaijan, the Caucasus, Russia-Ukraine relations and Central Asia.

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The event, hosted by UD’s Institute for Global Studies, is free and open to the public.

Suleymanov was appointed as ambassador in 2011, and previously served as Azerbaijan’s first consul general to Los Angeles with the rank of envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary. 

A career diplomat, Suleymanov worked as the first secretary and press attaché at the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Washington, D.C., then served as the senior counselor at the Foreign Relations Department of the presidential administration of Azerbaijan.

Before joining diplomatic service, Suleymanov worked with the United Nations high commissioner for refugees in Azerbaijan and Glaverbel Czech, a leading manufacturing company in East-Central Europe, as well as the Open Media Research Institute in Prague.