President
Ceyhun Mahmudlu is a founder and a President of Caspian Research Institute (CASPRI). He is also a visiting professor at Cornell University, Department of Government. His research interest covers energy geopolitics, regional security, peace and conflict resolution, cyber security, nationalism, and Islam in the greater Caspian region. Ceyhun Mahmudlu is a co-editor of Azerbaijani and Beyond: Perspectives on the Construction of National Identity, (Verlag Dr. Köster, 2017) and co-author of Karabakh in 99 Questions(CBA, Baku, 2014). Currently, he is working on the book project Nationalism, State and Islam in Azerbaijan (on changing religious policy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan). Ceyhun Mahmudlu is an author of a number of scholarly articles and policy briefs. His recent scholarly works have appeared at Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, Energies, Sustainability, Energy Strategy Review, Problems of Post-Communism, Europe-Asia Studies, and so on. Prior to CASPRI and Cornell University, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Central Eurasian Studies of Indiana University. From 2012 to 2015, he was a founder and a director of the Center for Security and Energy Research at Qafqaz University, Azerbaijan.