Rovnag Abdullayev


Rovnag Ibrahim oglu Abdullayev is the CEO of the SOCAR oil company and has been president of the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan since 2008. He is also member of National Assembly of Azerbaijan.

Career

He was born on April 4, 1965 in Nakhchivan. Abdullayev received his degree in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Industrial and Civil Engineering of Moscow State University of Civil Engineering in 1989.
In 1989, Abdullayev began working for the Neft Dashlari Oil and Gas Production Department of the Caspian Sea Oil & Gas Production Association. He continued to work there as an engineer until his appointment as Head of the Industrial Engineering Division of Construction and Mounting Department, Number Three, of Caspian Sea Oil & Gas Construction Trust. He later acted as their Chief Engineer between 1991 and 1994. Between 1997 and 2003 he was Manager of the Caspian Sea Oil & Gas Construction Trust before moving on to be the director of the Heydar Aliyev Baku Oil Refinery, previously known as Azerneftyanajag, until 2005.
He served as Neftchi Baku's president from 2004 to 2008.

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