Fuad Mamedov

Other letters, showing the regard that other academicians hold Mamedov have been sent by International Academy of Sciences in Azerbaijan (2007), Russian Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences (2007) and the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Institute of Cultural Studies (2008).

Cultural Studies, The Problems of Theory and History (Baku, 2002) Cultural Studies as the Means of Efficient Vital Activity (Baku, 2006) Culture of Management, Practice of Foreign Countries (Baku, 2009)

Mamedov is the Chairman of the Bachelor and Master Diploma Defense State Commission majoring in International Relations at the Azerbaijan University of Economics and a Member of several Dissertation councils of the Academy of State Management Under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijan Academy of Arts. In 1999, on his initiative, the Republican Doctoral and Postgraduate Thesis Examination Council for Cultural Studies was established.

Mamedov has represented the Azerbaijani science community at international conferences, in societies and embassies of Russia, US, Germany, Norway, France, South Korea, Thailand, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Costa Rica, Romania, Hungary and other countries. As a result of his performance in 1991 in Costa Rica, this Central American country was one of the first to officially recognize the independence of Azerbaijan. Following his report On the Scientific Approach To the Formation of Cultural Policy delivered at the International Culturological Conference in Norway (Bergen) in 2000, Mamedov was put on the Council of Europe's list of cultural policy experts.

Mamedov is also the president of the "Simurgh" Association of Culture of Azerbaijan, established by the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan in 1990; Chairman of the Society of Azerbaijan Cultural Studies; the Founder and Editor in Chief of the "Simurgh" international magazine of culture (history and theory of world culture and civilization), Author and Host of Idrak culturologic TV show.

In 1989 Fuad Mamedov was the first to conduct specific research into cultural studies (history and theory of the world culture and civilization) to achieve valuable scientific results and was instrumental to develop this new field in Azerbaijan.

Mamedov is an alumnus of the school of thought of the Institute of History of Science and Technology (USSR Academy of Sciences). He specialized in Azerbaijan history defending his thesis in 1975 and received first Grand PhD in History of Arts and Science in Azerbaijan in 1985.

In 1974 to 1982 Mamedov was engaged in pro bono publico activities as Academic Secretary of the Scientific Board for Exhibitions and Presentations of Findings, Deputy Chairman of the Knowledge Society of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and as a member of the Contemporary History Task Force of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.

1969 to 1991 Mamedov took a position at an institution of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. In 1991 to 1999 he worked at Baku Institute of Social Management and Political Studies as a professor and Chairman of the Department of History and Cultural Studies. From 1999 through present Mamedov is a history professor at the Academy of State Management Under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Fuad Mamedov was born in Baku, Azerbaija,n in 1948. He finished Baku school No. 150 in 1964, and in 1969 Mamedov graduated from Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute.