His Excellency Khazar Ibrahim, current ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United States, will speak on BYU campus.
Khazar Ibrahim was appointed as an Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States of America in 2021. Previously, he served as an Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Republic of Turkey from 2017 from 2021. He has held a number of diplomatic and security positions, including Head of the Mission of the Republic of Azerbaijan to NATO, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States of America, and spokesman of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry. He received a master’s degree in international relations (with distinction) from Baku State University and a master’s degree in security studies (with distinction) from Georgetown University. He attended a senior course at the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2000–2001. He taught a “Foreign Policy of Azerbaijan” class and “Post-Soviet Azerbaijan politics” seminar at Khazar University in Baku. He is married and has one son and three daughters.