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

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

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Tchiaberashvili had been serving as Permanent Representative of Georgia to the Council of Europe since 2005. He was the mayor of Tbilisi from 2004 to 2005, and Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Georgia from 2003 to 2004.

Mr. Tchiaberashvili started his career as a reporter and editor at the daily “Resonance” newspaper from 1993 to 1997. He served as press secretary at the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy from 1997 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2003 served as the Society’s Executive Director. From 1999 to 2002, he was Head of the Civic Education Department at the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. From 1999 to 2003, he was a guest lecturer at the European School of Management in Tbilisi, and from 1996 to 2001, he was an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology at Tbilisi State University.

Mr. Tchiaberashvili has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Tbilisi State University (1999) and an MBA from a joint programme with the Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern University, Evanston, United States and the Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany (2009). He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia on 6 June 1972, and is married with two children.



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