Ms. Abdullayeva leads the IHS Markit upstream consulting practice in Europe, CIS and Africa. Ms Abdullayeva brings 20 years of oil & gas industry experience acquired in commercial roles with a super-major and in management consulting. The scope of Ms. Abdullayeva's advisory expertise spans 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 complex high value consulting engagements. Her clients include international and national oil & gas companies, governments, regulators, services companies and financial investors. Prior to joining IHS Markit, Ms Abdullayeva was a finance advisor in BP, 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.