Mehriban Aliyeva
| Mehriban Aliyeva | |
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| Vice President of Azerbaijan | |
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Assumed office 21 February 2017 |
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| President | Ilham Aliyev |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| First Lady of Azerbaijan | |
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Assumed office 31 October 2003 |
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| President | Ilham Aliyev |
| Preceded by | Zarifa Aliyeva |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
26 August 1964 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Azerbaijan |
| Political party | New Azerbaijan Party |
| Spouse(s) | Ilham Aliyev (m. 1983) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Azerbaijan Medical University |
| Religion | Islam |
| Website | http://www.mehriban-aliyeva.az |
Mehriban Arif qizi Aliyeva (Azerbaijani: 'Mehriban Arif qızı Əliyeva'; born 26 August 1964) is the Vice President and First Lady of Azerbaijan, the head of Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the chairman of Azerbaijani Culture Friends Foundation, the President of Azerbaijani Gymnastics Federation, the goodwill ambassador of UNESCO and ISESCO.
Mehriban Aliyeva (née Pashayeva) was born in Baku, into a family described in cables as "the single most powerful family in Azerbaijan." Her grandfather was noted Iranian-born Azerbaijani writer Mir Jalal Pashayev. Her uncle Hafiz Pashayev was Azerbaijan's first Ambassador to the United States. Aliyeva's father Arif Pashayev is Rector of the National Aviation Academy in Baku, and her mother, Aida Imanguliyeva (1939–1992) was a prominent philologist and Arabist.
Mehriban Aliyeva finished secondary school in 1981 and married Ilham Aliyev, the son of Heydar Aliyev, in Baku on 22 December 1983. She continued her studies, in which she excelled, at the Azerbaijan Medical University and later at the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, from which she graduated in 1988. From 1988–92, Mehriban Aliyeva worked at the State Research Institute of Eye Diseases of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow, which was led by Dr. Mikhail Krasnov. Two articles in The Times in 2005 described her as a "qualified physician" and "former eye doctor."
The Aliyevs have two daughters, Leyla (born 3 July 1985) and Arzu (born 23 January 1987) and a son Heydar (born 2 August 1997). Leyla is the editor of Baku magazine, published by Azerbaijani Russian businessman Aras Agalarov, and is married to his son Emin Agalarov.
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