Jérôme Béguin, born June 29, 1978, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association des Amis de l'Azerbaïdjan.
He describes himself as a national advisor to the En Marche party, and a “mental preparator” for the KOMOP consultancy firm, co-founded in February 2020 with his wife Tatyana Zhabina. The latter, of Russian origin but born on March 28, 1976 in Baku, Azerbaijan, may well be the primary reason for Jérôme Béguin's relentless lobbying on behalf of Azerbaijan and Ilham Aliyev's dictatorship.
Jérôme Béguin travelled to Azerbaijan in 2013 to see his in-laws, and two years later, in 2015, he joined the board of directors of the Association des Amis de l'Azerbaïdjan. He became truly active in the pro-Azerbaijan lobby in 2017, the year from which his links with Mirvari Fataliyeva, a pillar of the pro-Azerbaijan lobby in France, emerged. That same year, it was already the 4th time he had visited Azerbaijan. With the Association des Amis de l'Azerbaïdjan, he co-organizes exhibitions extolling the “tolerance” of Ilham Aliyev's regime, acts as Azerbaijan's spokesman against Senate resolutions targeting the country in 2022, and hosts conferences alongside representatives of the Azerbaijani dictatorship in France, as in May 2023 with Azerbaijani doctoral students in Paris.
Jérôme Béguin is currently one of the most active lobbyists in the pro-Azerbaijani lobby in France.
Azerbaijan uses every means and relays at its disposal to silence its wars and crimes.
