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Azer Gasimli (d. 31 March 1975, Baku, Azerbaijan) - Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science.

Azer Gasimli was born on March 31, 1975 in the family of well-known geologist of Aghagasyim Gasimov in Baku. Agagasym Gasimov defended his thesis at the Moscow Institute of Mining named after AA Skchinsky in 1966 and returned to Baku and taught at the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University until the end of his life. His mother Shafiga Nasrullayeva graduated from the University of Foreign Languages in 1965. They met in the Old City. Azer Gasimli spent his childhood in Old City, M. Magomayev 83.

Azer Gasimli graduated his first higher education in 1998 with honour at Baku Institute of Social Management and Politics (now the Academy of Public Administration (Azerbaijan)). Here he received bachelor's degree in political science. In the same year, he graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. While studying at the Institute, Azer Gasimli worked in parallel with the project “Political Ideologies in Azerbaijan” implemented by the US Freedom House. In 1996 he was the author of the brochures on "Liberalism and Nationalism in Azerbaijan" subject.

In 1997, he participated in a conference of young sociologists and political scientists organized by the Open Society Foundations in Ukraine and published articles in the conference book.

In 1998 brochures about election technologies, authored by Azer Gasimli, were published. Azer Gasimli, who attended the IDEE conference in Warsaw in 1998, has published an extensive interview with the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He went to Turkey in 1998 to continue his education. First, he studies a one-year program of the Faculty of Turkish Language and Literature at the Marmara University in Izmir.

He went to Istanbul to study at the Marmara University in 2001 to Faculty of International Relations after graduation of one-year program of Turkish Language and Literature. Azer takes lessons from Ahmet Davutoğlu. Here he has been defending his thesis on "Legal and Political Basis of Citizenship and Political Bases" and obtains his master's degree.

In 2009 he received PhD degree in Political Sciences by defending his dissertation on “Formation of political regimes in Azerbaijan” at Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov.

In 2008-2009, Azer Gasimli published a series of articles in the Russian ‘Policy’ magazine.

In 2005-2010, Azer Gasimli has been running business projects in Germany, Estonia and Russia. However, Azer Gasimli, who is determined to return to Azerbaijan, is returning to the country and joining to the political scene of Azerbaijan that he had previously shown interest.

He was a member of the Board of the Republican Alternative Movement, Coordinator of the Organizing Committee of the Republican Alternative Party (Azerbaijan), Chairman of the assembly of the Republican Alternative Party (Azerbaijan) between 2011-2019.

Azer Gasimli is currently an independent politician.

He is married and has two daughters and a son.