Agshin Umudov is associated with the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Earlier, he was employed as a research assistant at the Department of European Studies andInternational Relations of the Qafqaz University in Baku (Azerbaijan). From 2012-2013, he worked as a project assistant at Renewables Academy (RENAC AG) in Berlin for the ＂TrEff -Training in Energy Efficiency＂project, financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) to support energy efficiency initiatives in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.