Sahiba Gafarova

Sahiba Ali gizi Gafarova (Azerbaijani: Sahibə Əli qızı Qafarova, 19 March 1955) is a professor, Doctor of Sciences of philology, Deputy and Chairman of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan.[1]

Sahiba Gafarova
Azerbaijani: Sahibə Qafarova
Chairman of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
Assumed office
10 March 2020
PresidentIlham Aliyev
Preceded byOgtay Asadov
Personal details
Born (1955-03-19) 19 March 1955
Shamkhor, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Citizenship Soviet Union
 Azerbaijan
Political partyNew Azerbaijan Party
EducationAzerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Russian Language and Literature
Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages
Awards

Biography

Sahiba Gafarova was born on March 19, 1955 in Shamkir. She graduated from Faculty of Russian Language and Literature of Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Russian Language and Literature and Faculty of English Philology of Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.[2] In 1978–1981 she worked as a secondary school teacher in Shamkir. In 1981–2020 she worked as a laboratory assistant, teacher, senior teacher, associate professor, professor of Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Russian Language and Literature, dean of Western languages faculty of Western University, head of European languages department of Baku Slavic University. In 2004–2020 S. Gafarova worked as Vice-Rector for International Relations of Baku Slavic University. From 2006 to 2007, she worked at University of Michigan Institute for Women and Gender Studies under the US State Department's Fulbright Scholarship Program. In 2015–2020, she served as Deputy Chairman of Committee on Family, Women and Children of National Assembly.[3] From 2013 to 2015, she chaired the subcommittees of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Gender Equality and Racism and Xenophobia.

2015–2017 she was a Political Coordinator of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's "Women Free from Violence" Parliamentary Network, Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Chairman of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and IDP of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and member of the Bureau. In 2018–2020, he was the head of Azerbaijani delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.[4]

Sahiba Gafarova has been a member of New Azerbaijan Party since 2004, and a deputy of 4th, 5th and 6th convocations of Milli Majlis.[5]

Awards
  • Honored Teacher of the Republic of Azerbaijan — 14 December 2016.[6]

References
  1. "S.Ə.Qafarovanın Azərbaycan Respublikası Milli Məclisinin Sədri seçilməsi haqqında AZƏRBAYCAN RESPUBLİKASI MİLLİ MƏCLİSİNİN QƏRARI". e-qanun.az. 10 March 2020. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  2. "Sahibə Qafarova Milli Məclisin Sədri seçilib". apa.az. 10 March 2020. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  3. "Azərbaycan Respublikası Milli Məclisi komitələrinin sədr müavinlərinin seçilməsi haqqında AZƏRBAYCAN RESPUBLİKASI MİLLİ MƏCLİSİNİN QƏRARI". e-qanun.az. 1 December 2015. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  4. "Bu da yeni spiker... - Sahibə Qafarova kimdir?". qafqazinfo.az. 10 March 2020. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  5. "Sahibə Qafarova Milli Məclisin sədri seçilib". amerikaninsesi.org. 10 March 2020. Archived from the original on 12 March 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  6. "Bakı Slavyan Universitetinin əməkdaşlarına fəxri adların verilməsi haqqında AZƏRBAYCAN RESPUBLİKASI PREZİDENTİNİN SƏRƏNCAMI". e-qanun.az. 14 December 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
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