TREND News Agency, introducing the practice of the world's leading news agencies, announces the establishment of the International Expert Council, composed of prominent politicians and public figures, analysts and experts, heads of business associations, authoritative representatives of science and media not only in Azerbaijan but near and far abroad.
TREND Expert Council is formed to develop a professional independent expert opinion, constructive dialogue between the various associations of intellectual forces, work out recommendations for the scientific community, the media, etc.
TREND Expert Council considers a targeted active participation in the formation of an integrated expert opinion about the processes in the South Caucasus, the Caspian and Central Asian regions as a priority.
An agreement for membership of the head of Azerbaijan's Bank Association Eldar Ismayilov, director general of the Information and Analytical Center for the study of socio-political processes in post-Soviet space of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov Alexey Vlasov, the head of Caucasian Studies at the Russian State Humanitarian University Ismayil Agakishiev, Azerbaijani political analysts Rasim Musabeyov and Fikret Sadikhov, representative of the International Coalition for Increasing Transparency in Extractive Industries, member of the EITI International Board of Azerbaijani civil society Inglab Akhmadov, member of the political council of New Azerbaijan Party, MP Aydin Mirzazade, writer, historian, expert on Iran Yunus Oguz, President of Social Development Foundation Rashad Rzaguliyev, deputy director general of the Information and Analytical Center of Moscow State University Alexandr Karavaev, chief editor of Izvestia-Kazakhstan Eduard Poletayev, program director of the Institute of Social and Political Research in Kazakhstan Botagoz Rakisheva, etc. to TREND International Expert Council was reached at the preliminary stage.
TREND will continue to work on the expansion of the council and inform about the activities undertaken within the Expert Council.