H.E. Dr. Hafiz Pashayev
Chairperson of the Baku Dialogues Editorial Advisory Council. He was a Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan and founding Rector of ADA University (formerly Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy) since 2006. He previously served as the inaugural Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United States (1993‑2006). At the time of his appointment, he was Director of the Metal Physics Laboratory at the Physics Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, where he had been employed in various positions since receiving an undergraduate degree in Physics from Baku State University in 1964. He received his doctorate in Physics from Baku State University in 1984, having previously received an advanced degree in 1971 from the Kurchatov Research Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow, on the basis of which he was awarded a prestigious post‑graduate research fellowship at the University of California at Irvine (1975‑1976). He is the author of two major books, Racing Up the Hill and Manifesto of an Ambassador.
