George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies Russian Academy of Sciences (Ph.D.) https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview/1065767/prof-dr-elkhan-nuriyev Elkhan Nuriyev (Azerbaijani: Elxan Eldar oğlu Nuriyev; born 15 May 1969, Baku, Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani political scientist and a recognized expert in Eurasian affairs, including Russia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.

During 1996–1997 Nuriyev was a William Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at The George Washington University.

[4] In February 2008, Nuriyev was appointed as the Founding Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, Azerbaijan's premier think-tank, known by the acronym SAM in Azeri language.

In 2017, Elkhan Nuriyev served as Corridors Fellow for Dialogue and Cooperation at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany.

In 2019, Nuriyev worked as a Humboldt Senior Fellow at Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS) / Centre for East European and International Studies in Berlin.