Äliyeva, Mehriban

LC control no.	n 2012073800
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Äliyeva, Mehriban *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Alieva, Mekhriban Алиева, Мехрибан. Aliyeva, Mehriban Arif qizi
Associated country	Azerbaijan
Birth date	1964-08-26
Place of birth	Baku (Azerbaijan)
Profession or occupation	Head of Azerbaijan's Heydar Aliyev Foundation First Lady of Azerbaijan
Special note	Non-Latin script reference not evaluated
Found in	Wikipedia search, Nov. 27, 2012 (Mehriban Arif qizi Aliyeva, b. Aug. 26, 1964 in Baku, Azerbaijan; is the head of Azerbaijan's Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the wife of its current president Ilham Aliyev) Kulʹtura i kulʹturnye shedevry Azerbaĭdzhana--unikalʹnoe poslanie budushchim pokolenii︠a︡m, 2009: t.p. (Mekhriban khanum Alievoĭ) Dini vä etnik dözümlülük bizim särvätimizdir, 2017: title page (Mehriban Äliyeva) Wikipedia, October 18th, 2022: (Mehriban Arif gizi Aliyeva born 26 August 1964) is an Azerbaijani politician and physician who is the vice president and First Lady of Azerbaijan. In 1995, she established the Azerbaijani Culture Friends Foundation. In 1996, she founded the magazine "Azerbaijan - Heritage" published in three languages (Azerbaijani, English and Russian) in order to promote Azerbaijani culture. Aliyeva established on 10 May 2004 the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, which focuses on studying and holding events to promote Heydar Aliyev's political ideology. In Azerbaijan, according to a recent news article, "The HAF builds more schools than Azerbaijan's Ministry of Education, more hospitals than the Ministry of Health, and conducts more cultural events than the Ministry of Culture.The Heydar Aliyev Foundation also sponsors projects outside Azerbaijan, including helping to finance renovations at the Louvre Museum, Palace of Versailles, and Strasbourg Cathedral. She is UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and Goodwill Ambassador of ISESCO. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan at the 4th General Assembly of the NOC on 28 December 2004. Since 2004, she is a member of the Political Board of the New Azerbaijan Party. She was selected as the deputy chairperson of the Party in June 2013. She was appointed by her husband as the chairperson of the Organizing Committee for the 1st European Games in Baku).