Anar Ahmadov is an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow, currently based at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. His research interests range across the subfields of comparative politics and political economy, with a particular interest in political regimes, energy resources, foreign aid, and fiscal policy, and the geographic focus on Central Asia, the Caucasus, and other non-Baltic former Soviet republics. His current projects investigate the role of international institutions in fostering the solution to the ‘resource curse’ in resource-rich developing countries and examine political determinants of economic diversification in these countries.

Previously, Anar worked as the Country Director of the Caucasus Research Resource Centre in Azerbaijan, and headed the Institute of Politics and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Khazar University in Baku, Azerbaijan. He has taught courses on public policy analysis, international relations, and research methods for students of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Khazar University, Baku State University, and Leiden University. Anar has also organized and conducted numerous executive education workshops, trainings, and seminars on public policy analysis, political economy of oil, and conflict management for government, civil society, business, and academic audiences from former Soviet Union and several European countries.

Anar completed his doctorate in the Department of Government at the LSE.