Ali Abbasov
| Ali Abbasov Əli Abbasov |
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| Minister of Communications & Information Technologies | |
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In office 20 February 2004 – 12 November 2015 |
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| President | Ilham Aliyev |
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January 1, 1953 Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan |
Ali Abbasov Mammad oglu (Azerbaijani: Əli Abbasov Məmməd oğlu) (born 1953 in Azerbaijan) was the Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan between 2004 - 2015.
Ali Mammad oglu Abbasov was born on January 1, 1953 in Nakhchivan city of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 1976, he graduated from the department of “Automatics and Telemechanics” of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and continued his graduate education in the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In 1981, he defended a thesis in the field of microelectronics and obtained PhD degree. In 1994, he defended his thesis entitled “Information processing and systems management” and was awarded with doctor of technical sciences academic degree. Abbasov A.M. is a full-time professor since 1996 and is a full member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences since 2001.
He is married and has two children.
During 1982-1992, Abbasov A.M. had worked at different positions in Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and had been in charge of scientific research works on development and application of computer and telecommunication networks. In 1992, he was appointed as a director of the Scientific Center of Information and Telecommunications of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (present Institute of Information Technology) and had worked at this position till 2000. During this period he worked at positions such as the managing executive and the head of “Republic’s Automated Management Systems” (RAMS-Azerbaijan) project and of special designated computer and information systems at the national level. He headed the creation process of Internet infrastructure in Azerbaijan. Ali Abbasov was country coordinator of EARN and INTERNET networks, Azerbaijan coordinator in the NATO Scientific Committee in the field of information technologies, UNESCO expert for information and telecommunication and also represented the Republic of Azerbaijan in Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA).
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