He also served as Vice Rector for Technology & Innovation and Founding Dean of the School of Information Technology & Engineering at ADA University in Baku, Azerbaijan (2015-17). His first full-time academic position was as director of institutional research and strategic planning at Bloomfield College, New Jersey, and also worked at Howard University, George Washington University, Rutgers University, USA, American University of Sharjah, UAE and ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan. Member of many boards, he also belongs to the Malabo Montpellier Panel and the EuroScience Forum 2018. He has completed his BS, MS. and Ph.D. at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, Master of Science in Finance (Financial Engineering) at George Washington University, and a Postgraduate Diploma (DipSI) in Strategy and Innovation from University of Oxford’s Said Business School and Postgraduate Certificate in Corporate Governance from INSEAD.