Lala Enver gizi Gafarli was born in Baku in a family of intellectuals. In 1993 she graduated from the Institute of Russian language and Literature (today’s Baku Slavic University) named after M.F.Akhundov. In 1990-1998 she held a position of the editor at the Head Office for State Secrets Protection under the Cabinet of Ministers. Then in 1998-2003 she worked as a reporter, producer at the “Khabarchi” (News Program) information program of the ANS Group of Companies. In 2003-2004 she was the deputy of the editor-in-chief of the “Millet” newspaper, in 2004-2009 an expert-journalist at the Foundation for Protection of Freedom of Speech, in 2010-2012 a senior advisor at the department of Accreditation of the Ministry of Education, in 2012-2020 an expert, executive director at the “ELS” Independent Research Center, 2022-2024 an editor-translator at the news department of the APA Media Group.
In 2007-2020 she held a position of senior teacher, associate professor at the department of Journalism and Philology of the “Tafakkur” Science and Education Center.
She’s an independent journalist-investigator. Since 2003 she’s a member of NIPA and Deputy of NIPA chairman on Media and Public Relations.
E-mail: lala_7070@mail.ru