Vano (Ivane) Matchavariani is a Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia. Prior to this, Mr. Matchavariani was an Executive Director in Georgia Development Foundation in 2015-2016. Before he served as an Adviser to the President of Georgia for Foreign Relations. Prior to this, he was a Deputy CEO in charge of External Relations in JSC Partnership Fund. Mr. Matchavariani served as an Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Georgia to Japan in 2007- 2009, Ambassador-at-Large\/Special Envoy on Energy Security Issues in 2007. Mr. Matchavariani joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia in 1998 and worked in Permanent Mission of Georgia to the United Nations in New York until 2002. In 1996-1998 he was an assistant to Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia on foreign affairs. Mr. Matchavariani holds his Master Degree from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, USA, Graduate Diploma in European and International Studies from Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic and Undergraduate Diploma from Georgian Technical University. He was also a fellow in George Mason University. Mr. Matchavariani is a lecturer of Foreign and Security Policy in Tbilisi State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14131,"template":"","years_alumni":[253],"class_list":["post-14130","alumni_post_type","type-alumni_post_type","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","years_alumni-253"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n