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Ambassador Hafiz M. Pashayev
Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States
Hafiz M. Pashayev is the
first ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United
States. He assumed his official duties in February 1993, and
presented his credentials to President Clinton on April 14,
1993. Ambassador Pashayev has had articles published in The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The
Christian Science Monitor, and The Boston Globe. In addition, he
has spoken before many foreign policy think tanks, including the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Central Asia
Institute of the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies of Johns Hopkins University. Ambassador Pashayev has
also lectured at numerous colleges and universities including
the University of Michigan, Mount Holyoke College, George Mason
University, and the University of California.
Prior to his appointment as ambassador, Dr. Pashayev taught
physics at Baku State University and served as Director of the
Metal Physics Laboratory in the Institute of Physics at the
Academy of Sciences in Azerbaijan. In 1984, he was named full
professor at the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. Ambassador
Pashayev received his degree in physics from Baku State
University in 1963, and his Ph.D. in solid state physics in 1971
from the Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow. From 1975 to
1976, he undertook research at the University of California at
Irvine. He is the author of more than 100 scientific articles
and books, and speaks Azerbaijani, Russian, Turkish, and
English.
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