Business and Local Governance
Natig Mirzayev
Dean of the Faculty of Business and Local Governance, Associate Professor, PhD in Economics
Investment Management, Entrepreneurship, Financial Management
+994 12 565 39 77
natiq.mirzeyev.2024@wcu.edu.az
Natig Sarhad Mirzayev was born on August 25, 1971, in the village of Girdani, Lankaran district. In 1988, he graduated from Girdani Village Secondary School and was admitted to the Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A.Timiryazev, specializing in the “Economics, organization and management of the Agro-Industrial Complex”. He graduated from the higher education institution in 1994 with a degree in economist-organizer.
Since 1995, he has held various positions at Lankaran State University. In 2015, he successfully defended his dissertation on the topic “Increasing the Role of Entrepreneurial Entities in the Development of Grain Production” and was awarded the scientific degree PhD in Economics. In 2018, he earned the academic title of Associate Professor. Since 2024, he has been an Honorary Professor at Urgench RANCH Technology University (Uzbekistan). Currently, he is working on his doctoral dissertation titled “Directions for Increasing the Economic Efficiency and Social Responsibility of Entrepreneurship in the Agrarian Sector.”
He is the author of 5 monographs, 1 textbook, 2 teaching aids, 2 methodological manuals, 11 course programs, and 138 articles and theses. His articles have been published in scientific journals in Poland, Russia, Turkey, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. Many of his articles have been published in SCOPUS and Web of Science (WOS) indexed journals.
He is a member of the editorial boards of several international scientific journals, including “Baltic Surveying” jointly established by universities in Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania; the International Journal of Advances in Business and Management Research (IJABMR) established by the Swami Vivekananda Global Academy (India); the International Journal on Recent Trends in Business and Tourism (IJRTBT) established by Lincoln University College (Malaysia); the journal “Вестник Самарского государственного экономического университета” of Samara State University of Economics (Russian Federation); and “Аграрні інновації” of the Institute of Climate-Oriented Agriculture of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine.
Currently, he serves as the Dean of the School of Business and Local Governance at Western Caspian University.