Gulmira Rzayeva

Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

Speaker

_{Ms. Gulmira Rzayeva is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES). She is a founder and managing director of the London-based Eurasia Analytics Ltd consulting company delivering sustainability, energy transition and climate solution. She was a senior research fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (SAM) under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for ten years until January 2019. Her area of expertise includes energy security covering issues such as the energy policy in Azerbaijan including upstream projects, infrastructure, renewable energy production and foreign investment, decorbanisation, energy transition. She also covers East Europe/Caspian region, Turkish domestic natural gas market, SEE gas market, gas-to-hydrogen, possible export of blue/green hydrogen to Europe from countries in the Caspian region and Turkey etc. Ms Rzayeva is recognized worldwide for her reports and seminal articles about energy focusing on the region, as well as for her speeches in some of the most prestigious universities including Harvard University, think-tanks and prestigious international conferences world-wide. Ms. Rzayeva has published several scholarly publications focusing on her areas of expertise.}