Akkreditierungsdatum

08.06.2020

Details

Date of Birth | 5th February, 1974

Personal Status | married with three children

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1991-1996 | Studied law at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, graduated with distinction

1998-1999 | Master's degree at the Faculty of Law of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Master's degree with distinction

2002 | Doctorate, awarded doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the Georg-August-University Göttingen ("magna cum laude jura")

Sprachen

Georgian, German, English, Russian

Berufliche Laufbahn

1995-1998 | Lecturer at the Chair of Constitutional Law and Theory of Law at the Faculty of Law of the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

1999-2002 | Research assistant at the Institute for Political Science in Göttingen

2002-2018 | Senior Research Associate at the T. Tsereteli Institute of State and Law of the Georgian Academy of Sciences

2002-2005 | Lecturer at the Chair of Constitutional Law and Theory of Law at the Faculty of Law of the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

2003-2004 | Representative of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in the South Caucasus

2004-2006 | Principal of the Police Academy of Georgia

2006-2007 | Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Georgian University in Tbilisi

2007-2009 | Visiting Professor at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer (Scholarship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation)

2009-2011 | Professor at the Georgian-American University

2009-2011 | Professor at the Faculty of Law, Caucasian University

2010-2011 | Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, in Heidelberg

2011-2014 | Professor at the Grigol Robakidze University in Tbilisi

2014-2016 | Professor at the Academy of the Ministry of Interior

2012-2015 | Deputy Minister of Interior

2015-2016 | Deputy Head of the Georgian State Security Service

2016-2019 | Minister of Defense

2019-2020 | Secretary of the Georgian National Security Council; Head of the Georgian Intelligence Service

since 2020 | Ambassador to Germany