Farkhad Teimurovich Akhmedov (Azerbaijani: Fərhad Teymur oğlu Əhmədov, Russian: Фархад Теймурович Ахмедов; born 15 September 1955) is an Azerbaijani-Russian businessman and a former politician in Russia, departing his role in 2009.

[4] At the end of his service, on the recommendations of his naval commanders, he submitted an application for admission to the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) but was turned down, because of his father's conviction.

[11] Earlier that year, Akhmedov had threatened to sue Gazprom in the London Court of International Arbitration[12] for failing to abide by the 2005 settlement agreement signed by Akhmedov and the then-CEO of Gazprom, now Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev,[10] by increasing tariffs on gas production and reducing the quotas which Northgas was permitted to produce.

Using previously established contacts, he helped to attract American oil companies, Amoco Eurasia Petroleum Corporation and McDermott International to the project.

He was involved in an agreement signed in Baku on 20 September 1994 between the newly independent Azerbaijan and an international consortium of oil companies on the development of Caspian energy resources.

[14] According to Akhmedov's memoirs, these negotiations, which began before the collapse of the USSR, presented political, organisational and technical challenges.

The team which helped bring them to a successful conclusion included Natik Aliyev and Khoshbakht Yusifzade who later became Heads of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan.

[5] Since 2009, he has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors and a shareholder of AZNAR, a natural juice and agriculture company based in Azerbaijan, named after his father, Teymur Akhmedov.

"[18] In January 2018, Akhmedov was included in the so-called "Kremlin report" - a US Treasury document submitted to the US Congress in accordance with the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).

[20] Akhmedov acted as a middleman between the American PR firm Ballard Partners and the authoritarian Ilham Aliyev regime in Azerbaijan.

[18] On September 15, 2020, Aliyev signed a decree on awarding Fərhad Teymur oğlu Əhmədov (Akhmedov) with the Dostlug Order for merits in the development of mutual relations between Azerbaijan and Russia after the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020.

Since 2011, Akhmedov has permanently been on the list of top 200 richest people in Russia according to the Russian version of Forbes magazine.

[27] After Akhmedov sold his stake in Northgas CJSC, his ex-wife, Tatyana Akhmedova, from whom he claimed to have been divorced in Russia in 2000, initiated a lawsuit in London.

[33] On March 25, 2023, a 35-minute audio recording of a conversation between, presumably, Producer Iosif Prigozhin and Farkhad Akhmedov, was widely circulated in the Ukrainian and Russian media and caused a public sensation in both countries.

On March 26, Prigozhin made a statement that the recording was a “fake” utilizing neural networks, but later said that “some moments” in the conversation were real.