The Perception of Oil and Energy in Azerbaijan

The Rumi Forum presented “The Perception of Oil and Energy by the Domestic and External Actors and its Implications for the Azarbaijan and Turkey” with Leila Alieva, Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow, National Endowment for Democracy.

Leila Alieva is a political analyst based in Baku, Azerbaijan. She directed an independent Center for Strategic and International Studies in Baku (1995-1997), and founded Center for National and International Studies (2001), held fellowships at Harvard University (1993-1994), UC Berkeley (2000), Woodrow Wilson Center -Kennan Institute- (1995) SAIS -Johns Hopkins University- (2001), NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome, Italy. She advised the President of EBRD, as well as leading oil companies, such as BP, UNOCAL, STATOIL, AIOC, served on the board of the Open Society Institute in Baku in 1998 and was a National Coordinator of the Human Development Report for UNDP (1997). Her research on the issues of security, conflicts and politics in the region were published by the Oxford University Press, Sharpe and others. Most recently she was an author of the NDC Occasional Paper N. 13 “Integrative Processes in the South Caucasus and their Security Implications” (Rome, 2006)

Leila Alieva | Part 1

Leila Alieva | Part 2

Leila Alieva | Part 3