Mukhtar Babayev

Mukhtar Babayev
Mukhtar Babayev
Muxtar Babayev
	Babayev in 2018
Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 23 April 2018
President	Ilham Aliyev
Preceded by	Huseyngulu Baghirov
Member of the National Assembly; for Sumgait's 3rd constituency
	In office; 30 November 2010 – 23 April 2018
Preceded by	Nizami Iskandarov
Succeeded by	Emin Hajiyev
Personal details
Born	16 October 1967 (age 56); Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Citizenship	Soviet Union; Azerbaijan
Political party	New Azerbaijan Party
Education	Moscow State University (1991); Azerbaijan State University of Economics (1994); All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade (2000)
Awards

Mukhtar Bahadur oghlu Babayev (Azerbaijani: Muxtar Bahadur oğlu Babayev, 16 October 1967) is an Azerbaijani politician who is Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Republic. He has worked in various roles for the Azerbaijan state-owned oil company SOCAR since the 1990s.^[1]

The Azerbaijan government appointed Babayev as president of COP29, the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference.^[1]^[2]

^ ^a ^b "Climate change: Former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev to lead COP29 talks in Azerbaijan". BBC. 2024-01-05.
^ "Azerbaijan minister and state oil company veteran to lead COP29 climate talks". Reuters. 2024.

[:0-1] "Climate change: Former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev to lead COP29 talks in Azerbaijan". BBC. 2024-01-05.

[2] "Azerbaijan minister and state oil company veteran to lead COP29 climate talks". Reuters. 2024.

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