Head of State Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture to Head Presidential Administration
Baku / 01.11.19 / Turan: By the order of the President of Azerbaijan dated November 1, Samir Nuriyev was appointed head of the Presidential Administration. Prior to that, he headed the State Agency for Housing Construction of Azerbaijan.
Nuriev was born in Baku on March 9, 1975. In 1996, he graduated from Azerbaijan Technical University with a degree in Engineering and Economics. In 2003-2005 he continued his education at Duke University in the USA for a master's degree in international development policy.
From 1996 to 2003, Samir Nuriev worked as an economist, marketing manager and project coordinator in various private companies and international organizations, including as a business consultant in the UN Development Program (2000-2001).
In 2006 he was appointed director of the Department of Entrepreneurship Development of the Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan.
In 2009, Nuriyev became the deputy head of the Icheri Sheher State Historical and Architectural Reserve under the Cabinet of Ministers, and in 2013 he headed the Icheri Sheher Nature Reserve.
On April 12, 2016, he was appointed director of the State Agency for Housing under the President of the country, on February 14, 2018 he headed the Board of the State Agency for Housing, and on April 21 of that year, the State Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture.
Since 2015, Nuriyev has been an honorary member of the Union of Architects of Azerbaijan and a member of the New Azerbaijan Party. —06D-
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