Rustam Tahirov

Rustam Tahirov is the Director of the Financial Sector Sustainable Development Department at the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBAR). In this role, he is responsible for developing and implementing initiatives for financial sector and market growth. He has played a key role in developing the Azerbaijan Sustainable Finance Roadmap (2023-2026), which sets out a structured plan to establish enabling 
sustainable finance ecosystem. He also leads the cross institutional Expert Group working on the Azerbaijan National Green Taxonomy, a framework to guide green finance investments. Additionally, he leads joint CBAR and SBFN’s initiative to improve the global alignment of sustainable finance taxonomies, focusing on building consistency in taxonomy definitions and concepts across different jurisdictions, regions and sectors.