On June 22, 2018, held a meeting of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Economics, ANAS. At the meeting chaired by the Director of the Institute, Professor Nazim Muzaffarli started a competition for scientific positions.
The Chairman of the Competition Commission, Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor Allahyar Muradov gave information about the pretendants of the 
department of “The problems of industry and investment policy”. Held discussions on each applicant's scientific activities, they asked to addressed questions and heard their opinions at the meeting. Then a secret ballot was held in order to hold the scientific position claimed for each candidate. According to the results, prof., Tofig Huseynov were elected head of the department, Tahir Ibrahimov and Shahin Sadigov leading scientific workers, Uzun Elmaz, Shirinova Sevinc, Ismayilov Emin and Hajiyeva – Gargari Esmira elected scientific workers. 
In the second half of the day, at the Scientific Council held a competition for scientific positions in the department "Agrarian reforms and problems of food safety". According to the results prof. Isa Aliyev was eected head of department, Leyla Muradverdiyeva, Ilkin Soltanli and Famil Rustamov were elected leading scientific workers, Ramzi Abdullayev, Yunus Sadigov and Vugar Kerimli were elected head scientific workers, Leyla Serttash were elected scientific workers, Vusala Gubatova were elected junior scientific workers.
The other 4 candidates were not elected for their positions because they were unable to collect the required number of votes at the Scientific Council (economics.com.az).
