Dr. Ulviyya Abbasova is a distinguished academic leader, strategist, researcher and linguist with over 20 years of experience in higher education management and international institutional development. She currently serves as an Associate Professor and the Advisor to the Rector on Rankings at the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University (ASOIU). In this role, she leads the university’s strategic integration into global academic frameworks and oversees its performance across various international ranking systems, including QS World University Rankings, UI GreenMetric Rankings, THE World University Rankings and others. Her expertise focuses on international relations and global academic positioning, and she leads initiatives aimed at improving the university’s standing in these rankings.

Her career achievements include winning the “Teacher of the Year” competition in 2015, awarded in accordance with Presidential Decree No. 2373 for outstanding pedagogical contribution, being appointed Ambassador for Peace by the Universal Peace Federation and the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace, obtaining CELTA (QCF) certifications from both Oxford English Language Assessment in 2016 and Cambridge English Language Assessment in 2015, coordinating the Erasmus+ PETRA Project in 2018, participating as a member of the UniLab Project in 2015 within the Erasmus+ framework, serving as an international representative for the “One Road One Belt” initiative in 2016 where she represented Baku Slavic University in China through the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, being recognized by Cambridge International Examinations for IC GSE English as a Second Language, and participating in the II Moscow Forum as a “Young Lecturer” focused on professional standards and development vectors.

Her education and training include a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Philology obtained in 2016, a Master’s Degree in Translation from the Azerbaijan University of Languages completed between 2000 and 2002, a Specialist Qualification as an English teacher for high schools obtained between 2010 and 2011 at the Azerbaijan University of Languages, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Translation from the Azerbaijan University of Languages earned between 1996 and 2000, specializing as a linguist-translator in the English language.