Assoc. Prof. GÜNAY PƏNAHOVA

Gunay Mahish qizi Panahova was born on 22.10.1980 in Baku.

In 1997, she graduated from school-lyceum number 20 with excellent grades.

In 2001, she graduated from the Azerbaijan State Economic Institute (UNEC) with a bachelor's degree in the "General Economics" faculty, "Economic Theory" specialty, with a diploma of honors.In 2003, she graduated from the Azerbaijan State Economic University with a master's degree in the "Economics" specialty, "Economic Theory" specialization, with a diploma of honors.

In 2010, he successfully defended his dissertation on the topic of “Macroeconomic Problems of Ensuring Sustainable Development” under the Doctor of Philosophy in Economics program and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics.

He began his work as a part-time teacher at the “Economic Theory-2” department at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics in 2004, worked as a 0.5-time teacher in 2006, a 0.5-time senior teacher in 2013, a full-time senior teacher in 2014, and an associate professor in the “Theoretical and Practical Economics” department since 2018. From 2022 to the present, he has been working as an associate professor at the “Economics” department, 

Gunay Panahova is the head of the specialty "Theoretical Economics and Sectoral Economics" at the Department of "Economics".

Gunay M. Panahova has 20 years of scientific and pedagogical experience.

The list of subjects I teach includes “Introduction to Economics”, “Microeconomics”, “Macroeconomics”, “Azerbaijani Economy”“History of Economic Thought”.

She also teaches “Microeconomics”  and  "Economics of Natural Resources"in English in UNEC’s SABAH Groups.

In 2016,  was awarded the 3rd place in the article competition held among the faculty members within the framework of the “Science Month”.

Since 2017, I have been a member of the UNEC “Young Teachers” Council.

From 2014 to 2021, I was the head of the Student Scientific Association in the “Theoretical and Practical Economics” department.

In 2019, he successfully completed the British Council's 4-month "Academic Writing" course.

In 2025,  was awarded an "Honorary Certificate " for her activities in organizing the 1st International Conference of Researchers in the Field of Economics and Social Sciences on Trends of the Modern Era: "Green Economy and Sustainable Development". 

On June 18, 2025, was awarded an Honorary Certificate on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of UNEC (Azerbaijan State University of Economics) in recognition of her contributions to the training of highly qualified specialists and the responsible fulfillment of professional duties.

He is the scientific supervisor of 1 doctoral candidate and master's degree students in the direction of the Doctor of Philosophy program in Economics.

Since 2002, he has been the author of more than 40 scientific articles devoted to current problems of the economy, 3 of which are in periodicals included in international summarization and indexing systems (Web of science, Scopus), 7 subject programs and a textbook entitled "Managing Sustainable and Inclusive Development".

She is married and has 2 children.