He was born on May 20, 1951, in Ujar district of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
In 1971 he graduated from the Azerbaijan Institute of National Economy (now the Azerbaijan State University of Economics).
From 1971-to 1976 he was a part-time graduate student of the Azerbaijan Institute of National Economy.
He served in the military from 1972-to 1973.
In 1973-1995 he worked as a laboratory assistant, assistant, associate professor, dean of the Baku branch of the Moscow Cooperative Institute (now the Azerbaijan Cooperation University).
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In 1982, he defended his thesis at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He is a candidate of economic sciences.
Since 1996, he has held the positions of associate professor and deputy dean at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics.
He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Theoretical and Practical Economics.
He is the author of up to 30 scientific-methodical works.
Married and has two children and grandchildren.