Ms. Abdullayeva helps clients make complex decisions relating to the upstream oil and gas sector. Her clients include international and national oil & gas companies, governments, regulators, services companies and financial investors. The scope of Ms. Abdullayeva's advisory expertise spans corporate and asset strategy, opportunity identification, transactions & valuations and petroleum fiscal regimes. Ms. Abdullayeva is an experienced project manager and has led many global cross-practice multi-disciplinary teams of experts, delivering multi-million dollar consulting engagements. Prior to joining IHS Markit, she was a finance advisor in BP Azerbaijan, where she provided commercial support to BP-operated upstream and midstream assets in the Caspian. Ms. Abdullayeva holds an MBA in International Management and Finance from Thunderbird School of Global Management in USA, and is fluent in English and Russian.