Vusal Guliyev

Vusal Guliyev is the Head of Shanghai Office at AZEGLOB Consulting Group and Founder of the AZETRON Trading Co., Limited, a privately held full-service market intelligence and business consultancy firm headquartered in Shanghai, China. He is also a Policy Expert at the Topchubashov Center (a Baku-based global policy think tank where he writes extensively on East Asian and Pacific Affairs) and an Associate Research Fellow at the China Studies Center of Khazar University in Baku. 

He holds a Master's degree in China Studies and a Ph.D. in International Politics from Shanghai International Studies University. His professional portfolio includes long-term Visiting Research Fellowships from Ankara University Asia-Pacific Research Center, Harvard University Davis Center, and Boğaziçi University Asian Studies Center, respectively. While pursuing his postgraduate studies, he also attended the international workshop series at Kyushu University of Japan and interned at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. 

Besides being a contributing author to numerous scholarly books, he regularly writes research articles, commentaries, op-eds, and analytical policy reports for local and international media outlets and think tanks. Throughout his professional career, he also delivered consulting services in various fields to the institutions from Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, China, Japan, Canada and Germany. He is fluent in Azerbaijani, Chinese, Turkish, English and Russian.