Before joining the Council of Europe in 2015, she was involved in lecturing and researching on human rights law and running the Legal Aid Clinic on protection of women’s rights at Azerbaijan University. She holds a PhD in Law and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University. She is a certified expert of the JRR-UN Women Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) Justice Roster on Investigating cases of SGBV as international crimes.