NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GEORGIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Levan Mikeladze, the new Permanent Representative of Georgia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Mikeladze had been serving as Georgia’s Ambassador to the United States, Canada and Mexico since 2002. From 1996 to 2002, he served as Georgia’s Ambassador to Austria and simultaneously to the international organizations in Vienna. In 1992, Mr. Mikeladze headed the first European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.

Mr. Mikeladze began his career in academia, serving as the Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the Academy of Science of Georgia from 1989 to 1992, where he coordinated the research activities of five large academic institutes. Prior to that, he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Geography of Georgia, from 1978 to 1989, and as a lecturer on demography, economics and social and political geography at the Tbilisi State University and the Agrarian University, from 1987 to 1990.

A Fulbright Scholar, Mr. Mikeladze attended the Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control in 1994. He holds a PhD in economic and social geography from the USSR Academy of Science in Moscow (1987) and a diploma from Tbilisi State University (1978).

Married, with two children, Mr. Mikeladze was born on 26 February 1957 in Tbilisi.

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