Ms. Gunay Rahimova is a career diplomat and currently a First Secretary at the Humanitarian and Social Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Prior to this position, she served as a Second Secretary and Congressional Liaison at the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States, as the U.S. and Russian Desk Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and as a Cultural Affairs Attaché at the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Greece. Ms. Rahimova holds an MA (2002) and BA (1999) in the Science of Languages from the Azerbaijan University of Languages and is fluent in Azerbaijani, English, Russian and Turkish with a working knowledge of Greek and French.