Ilham Aliyev Net Worth 2012 | 2013

Ilham Aliyev net worth: Ilham Aliyev is the President of Azerbaijan and has a net worth of $500 million dollars. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Ilham Aliyev graduated from the Moscow State University of International Relations. He went on to earn his Masters there, and then completed his PhD in History. He became Vice-President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan in 1994. Over the course of the next few years, he was elected to the National Assembly of Azerbaijan, became President of the National Olympic Committee, and was appointed head of the Azerbaijan delegation to the Council of Europe. 

He was elected prime minister in August of 2003. A few months later, his father, the then current president of Azerbaijan, Ilham’s father, stepped down due to ill health, and appointed his son as his replacement. Ilham Aliyev went on to win the 2003 election, amid widespread protest and allegations of voter fraud. His track record as a president has been widely frowned upon, and Azerbaijan is considered to have one of the most flawed “democratic” governments in the world.