In 2014, she completed her bachelor’s degree in International Relations at Baku State University. In 2017, she graduated with distinction from the master’s program in International Relations and Diplomacy jointly offered by Vytautas Magnus University and Sciences Po, funded by scholarships awarded by the governments of Lithuania and France.

She is an honorary graduate of the EU Foreign Policy program at the European Academy of Diplomacy, completed with a grant.

Nargiz Hajieva is a young political scientist, a Swiss Federal Excellence Scholarship holder, a young doctoral researcher at UNEC, and Head of the Scientific Activity Organization Department within the Department of Organization and Management of Scientific Activity at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC). She also serves as the Head of the UNEC Women Researchers Council.

She completed her doctoral research at the University of St. Gallen, School of Political Science and Economics, on “The Economic and Legal Assessment of Illegal Import and Export Processes in Karabakh and Surrounding Regions during the Occupation Period.”

As the first Azerbaijani female political researcher, she also serves as Director of the Empirical Research Working Group of the Swiss Political Science Association at the University of Bern. In addition, she is an executive member of the Organizing Committee of an international scientific conference to be held at the University of Basel in February 2023.

Since 2018, she has worked as a specialist at UNEC’s International Cooperation Department and as a lecturer teaching Sociology and Political Science in English at the UNEC International School of Economics. She currently serves as Head of the Scientific Activity Organization Department within the Department of Organization and Management of Scientific Activity.

Nargiz Hajieva is also an honorary member and young researcher of the Democracy NET young scholars network of the University of Zurich, Department of Political Science.

In 2016, she worked as a political researcher at the Institute of Cold War Political Studies under Corvinus University of Budapest. In 2017, she conducted research as an independent diplomatic researcher at the Prague Institute of International Relations under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic on the topics “The Beginning of a New Era in Russia–Turkey Energy Relations: From Competition to Cooperation” and “Azerbaijan’s Energy Diplomacy and the European Union.”

In 2018, she was selected as a Young European Ambassador within the EU’s Eastern Neighbours Program.

She actively participates in the EU Eastern Neighbours Policy Program initiatives aimed at encouraging women and schoolgirls to engage in science and knowledge, particularly the Women and Girls in STEM projects. She has delivered guest lectures and seminars at numerous universities across Europe, including Mykolas Romeris University, European Humanities University, Vytautas Magnus University, Vilnius University, University of Siegen, Corvinus University, University of Warsaw, Kazimierz Wielki University, Kozminski University, University of Lausanne, University of St. Gallen, University of Zurich, University of Málaga, as well as universities in Azerbaijan.

Scientific Works

She is the Azerbaijani winner of the Swiss Federal Excellence Scholarship for the 2021–2022 academic year, selected from over 3,000 doctoral candidates from 193 countries.

She was appointed team leader and keynote speaker at the 15-day intensive INNOCAMP 2022 program organized jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Geneva Office and the Korean Intellectual Property Office. Under her leadership, Team C received the Best Performance Award for Patent Strategy and Intellectual Property Regulation.

She is a recipient of numerous prestigious grants and scholarships, including Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), IFA – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, ERASMUS+, PZU, Adam Mickiewicz Scholarship, Stimson Institute Grant, Visegrad School of Political Science, EU Jean Monnet, Red Crescent Society Grant, MIRAI–Japan, ICMPD, among others.

She is the honorary Azerbaijani winner of the international article competition dedicated to the 10th Anniversary of the Eastern Partnership Program, organized by the EU, Lithuanian and Polish Ministries of Foreign Affairs.

Due to the quality and relevance of her dissertation on Karabakh and her expertise in international law, she was selected as Azerbaijan’s winner of the MIRAI – Japan Exchange Program on International Law and the Rule of Law, organized by the Government of Japan and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

She is fluent in English, French, German, Russian, Turkish, and Lithuanian.
She is married and has one child.