Giorgi Muchaidze is a member of the Georgian Council on Foreign Relations. He started his career in the private sector as a business law consultant. In 1997 he moved to public sector. During next 13 years, as a public servant he held different jobs, including the positions of Deputy Defense Minister and Charges D\u2019affaires. In 2011, he switched to the NGO sector and since then has been serving as an Executive Director at the Atlantic Council of Georgia.<\/p>\n
Giorgi has actively contributed to cardinal reformation of the national security system of Georgia, which was widely recognized as a success. He has both, midand strategic level management experience in security sector institution and capacity building, as well as in embedding the democratic checks and balances and institutional change.<\/p>\n
Giorgi is a co-founder of the Georgian-German Strategic Forum, a nongovernmental platform that brings together security communities of two countries for facilitation of strategic partnership. As an acknowledgement of his contribution to US-Georgian strategic partnership, on June 23, 2008, the US Flag was flown in his honor over the Pentagon.<\/p>\n
Giorgi holds master\u2019s degrees from Tbilisi State University (LLM with honor) and Harvard Kennedy School of Government (MPA). As the UN Disarmament Fellow and the Research Fellow at Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, he authored several research papers on the topical issues of regional and international security. Among his other special interests are wine, literature, music and rugby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14144,"template":"","years_alumni":[253],"class_list":["post-14143","alumni_post_type","type-alumni_post_type","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","years_alumni-253"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n