The highest electing body of the Azerbaijan Marketing Society (AMS) is the Annual General Meeting of members (AGM) who elect the Board of Trustees by simple majority vote. The Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees are responsible for the management of the society and appoint an Executive Director who assists them with operational issues.

Chairman of the Board of the AMS - Rahim Huseynov:

Mr. Huseynov obtained his Master's degree in Engineering Economics at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy and obtained his PhD from the Academy of Sciences. Mr. Huseynov obtained his MBA from the State University of Istanbul in 1992.

Mr. Huseynov has been active in the private sector since 1990. In 1996 he established SIAR (Social  & Marketing Research Center) the leading marketing research company of Azerbaijan. In 2000 he co-founded the Azerbaijan Marketing Society. In recent years the enterprise has established several different areas of business. 

Deputy Chairman of the Board of the AMS - Fuad Aliyev

Mr. Aliyev obtained his Bachelor's from the Azerbaijan State Economic University and a Master's of Arts in Political Science and Political Economy from the Central European University before continuing his education in Hungary. In 2003 he also received a Master's degree of the Republic of Azerbaijan Academy of Public Administration under the President. He worked as a researcher at and obtained his PhD from the Economic Reform Center of the Ministry of Economic Development from 2003 to 2006. From October 2006 till 2008 Mr. Aliyev acted as the Executive Director of the AMS. In 2008-2009 Mr. Aliyev was the lead of the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy project.

Executive Directors of the AMS: 

1.   Aygul Isayeva
Ms. Aygul Isayeva received her degree in Master of Science in Business and Economics with Major in Marketing from BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway in 2008. She has completed four-year Bachelor of International Economic Relations Program for three and half year with Honor Diploma at Khazar University, Baku, in 2006.
Since 2008 she served as an Assistant to the President dealing with International Relations and Projects issues. Currently, she works as an Executive Director at Azerbaijan Marketing Society (AMS). At the same time she teaches Services Marketing; International Business; Principles of Marketing at Khazar University. She is also a PhD student at Khazar University. Her research interests include customer satisfaction with service recovery, customer complaint behavior ect.
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2.   Samira Gafarova (2008 – 2009)
Mrs. Gafarova graduated from the Azerbaijan State Economic University in 2008. Since 2007 Mrs. Gafarova works in the tourism industry and from April till July 2008 was Director of the company Ziya Tourism. From July 2008 till July 2009 Mrs. Gafarova fulfilled the role of Executive Director of the AMS. At present Mrs. Gafarova is engaged with the www.eco.az project.

3.    Fuad Aliyev (2006 - 2008)
Mr. Aliyev currently acts as Deputy Chairman of the AMS, see above.

4.    Sanar Mammedov (2002 - 2006)
Mr. Mammedov studied at the Azerbaijan University of Languages and obtained his PhD in English Linguistics in 2000. In 2002 Mr. Sanar studied Business Ethics at the George Washington University. Mr. Sanar worked as an expert for AMS since February 2000 and in December 2002 became Executive Director. Since 2006 Mr. Sanar works as Project Manager in the marketing department of Azersun Holding.

5.    Rauf Aliyev (2000-2001)
Mr. Aliyev obtained his degree from Gazi University (Ankara, Turkey) in 1998. From 2000 to 2001 Mr. Aliyev acted as AMS Executive Director. How on earth during the next years of marketing, communication, and spheres of governance has worked, since 2003 - currently "ARI Management" (Commerce, IT solutions, Media) Company has been working as executive director. In many countries during the years 2001-2008-trainer training in various topics such as participated.