Elin Suleymanov
In October of 2011, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev appointed Elin Suleymanov as Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to the United States of America. Prior to that, for over five years, Mr. Suleymanov had been the nation’s first Consul General to Los Angeles and the Western States leading the team, which established Azerbaijani diplomatic presence on the West Coast. Earlier, he served as Senior Counselor at the Foreign Relations Department, Office of the President in Baku, Azerbaijan and as Press Officer of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Washington, DC. Mr. Suleymanov’s experience before joining diplomatic service includes working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Azerbaijan, as well as with the Open Media Research Institute in Prague, Czech Republic, and Glaverbel Czech, a leading manufacturing company in East-Central Europe.
A graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts, Mr. Suleymanov also holds graduate degrees from the Political Geography department of the Moscow State University, Russia, and from the University of Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Suleymanov has authored numerous articles and is a frequent presenter at academic events. He speaks Azerbaijani, English, Russian and Czech languages.
Selected articles and interviews by Elin Suleymanov:
- Resolution of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict key to coexistence
- The Changing Regional Dynamics of Eurasia: A View from Azerbaijan
- WikiLeaks Fallout: White House Orders Security Reviews. FOX 11 News video report
- America needs long-termregional strategy
- Azerbaijani Consulate General in LA hosts seminar for students in California
- The Price of Freedom: Remembering January 20, 1990; The Huffington Post
- Symbolism vs. Reality in the Caucasus - More Reality is Needed
- Azeri consul in LA: "Turkey recognizes Azerbaijan's leading regional role
- The Promise of Visionary Pragmatism
- Making history in person: View from Azerbaijan
- Azerbaijan Consul General Elin Suleymanov speaks in Colorado
- Azerbaijan, Wyoming share same values, by Elin Suleymanov Wyoming News
- A view on America's diverse elections, by Elin Suleymanov, Special to the Rocky Mountain News, Colorado September 28, 2008
- Azerbaijan Consul General Suleymanov finds kinship on the reservation
- From Azerbaijan to Idaho...
- Consul General's interview with Bill Handel at KFI AM -640
- Expanding Westward - Azerbaijan International, Autumn 2006, (14/3)
- Consul General's interview to Azeri-Press Agency (APA)
- Azerbaijan: The Wider Black Sea's Caspian Keystone (Chapter from: NEXT STEPS IN FORGING A EUROATLANTIC STRATEGY FOR THE WIDER BLACK SEA, edited by Ronal D.Asmus, November 2006. Published by the German Marshall Fund of the US)
- "Ali and Nino" by Kurban Said. Inside the Soul of a Caucasian. Book Review by Elin Suleymanov Boxcars, Dugout Shelters and Promises to Keep. Azerbaijan's Refugees
- Youth in Search of the Future. Identity Changes in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan
