Khalid Salmanov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan on 14th of February 1982. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Oil and Gas Wells Driving in 2002 from the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in Azerbaijan. Then, he decided to deepen his knowledge in the oil industry hence he enrolled and graduated his master’s degree in Environmental Protection Measures Applied in the Oil Industry in 2004 in a cooperation with Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (Azerbaijan), University of Nizza (France), and University of Geneva (Italy). In 2004 he was employed by Rolls-Royce Energy Azerbaijan and worked as Control Engineer. During his employment with Rolls-Royce, Khalid gained a technical diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Electronics INC, Cleveland, Ohio USA in the faculty of Industrial Electronics with PLC Technology. He worked for Rolls-Royce over 8 years and his last position when he left the company was Automation Manager for Central Asia Region. Later in his career he joints British Petroleum (BP) as Senior Instrumentation and Control Engineer based in Azerbaijan. In 2020 he obtained Master Engineer degree in Industrial Automation with Institute of Engineering and technology, Perth, Australia. Currently, Khalid is working for Croda Europe Limited as Instrumentation and Control Engineer at the chemical production plant based in the United Kingdom. Khalid also is a Chartered Engineer with Institute of Engineering and Technology, UK.
