Sahiba Gafarova

Sahiba Gafarova
Sahibə Qafarova
Gafarova in 2020
Speaker of the National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 March 2020
President	Ilham Aliyev
Preceded by	Ogtay Asadov
Member of the National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2010
Personal details
Born	(1955-03-19) 19 March 1955 Shamkhor, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	New Azerbaijan
Children	2
Education	Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Russian Language and Literature Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages

Sahiba Ali gizi Gafarova (Azerbaijani: Sahibə Əli qızı Qafarova; born 19 March 1955) is an Azerbaijani politician and academic who has been Speaker of the National Assembly since 2020, and in the assembly as a member of the New Azerbaijan Party since 2010.

Early life and education

Sahiba Ali gizi Gafarova was born in Shamkhor, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union, on 19 March 1955. She graduated from the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Russian Language and Literature and the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.

Career

From 1978 to 1981, Gafarova was a teacher at a high school in Shamkir. From 1981 to 2020, she worked at the Baku Slavic University as a laboratory assistant, teacher, professor, and head of the Department of European Languages. At the Western Caspian University she was dean of the Faculty of Western Languages from 2000 to 2004.

In the 2010 election Gafarova won a seat in the National Assembly as a member of the New Azerbaijan Party. During her tenure in the assembly she was Deputy Chair of the Family, Women and Children's Affairs committee. Gafarova was elected Speaker of the assembly on 10 March 2020, and reelected on 23 September 2024.

Gafarova was a member of Azerbaijan's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2010 to 2020, and head of the delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly from 2018 to 2020. She is the head of the delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, TURKPA, and CIS Interparliamentary Assembly.

Personal life

Gafarova is married and is the mother of two children. The Order of Friendship was given to her by Vladimir Putin in 2025.

Works cited

News

• Kuenning, Xandie (12 March 2025). "Putin awards Order of Friendship to Azerbaijani Parliamentary Speaker Gafarova". OC Media. Archived from the original on 30 June 2025.

Web

• "Azerbaijan". Inter-Parliamentary Union. Archived from the original on 30 June 2025. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
• "Milli Məclisin Sədri". National Assembly. Archived from the original on 30 June 2025. Retrieved 30 June 2025.

External links

• "Azərbaycan Respublikası Milli Məclisinin Mədəniyyət komitəsi üzvlərinin seçilməsi haqqında AZƏRBAYCAN RESPUBLİKASI MİLLİ MƏCLİSİNİN QƏRARI". e-qanun.az. 7 December 2010. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
• "Bakı Slavyan Universitetinin əməkdaşlarına fəxri adların verilməsi haqqında Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin Sərəncamı". president.az. 14 December 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
• Official twitter account of Sahib GafarovTwitter.com
• Sahib Gafarov's official Facebook pageFacebook.com