Giorgi started his professional career in 2003 when he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Very soon he was promoted to the position of the Assistant to Minister where he worked almost a year till Autumn 2004. At MFA, Giorgi covered international organizations, Russia and the conflict regions of Georgia. He served as the MFA representative at Joint Control Commission \u2013international negotiation format over the conflict in Tskhinvali region\/South Ossetia.<\/p>\n
In 2005 Giorgi moved to the National Security Council to serve as a Senior Advisor with the same area and regional focus. In September 2005, when he was invited to join the foreign policy team of the Prime Minister Nogaideli. Giorgi worked as an Assistant to Prime Minister (for 2 Prime Ministers) till 2008. Giorgi\u2019s areas of competencies included support of Prime Ministers in their foreign policy activities, but also, at some point he was entrusted with PR activities of the Prime Minister\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
In 2009, when Giorgi returned from a year-long study break he joined another Prime Minister\u2019s team as a Senior Advisor and worked there till 2011. This time, Giorgi\u2019s portfolio was larger and apart from foreign relations it included participation in planning of various structural and economic reforms. Some of his accomplishments include participation in successful negotiations and coordinating relevant reforms for opening DCFTA negotiations with the EU, negotiations on Russia\u2019s WTO accession, and successful negotiations and background work for US Millennium Challenge Corporation\u2019s 2nd Compact (USD 120 mln grant) for Georgia.<\/p>\n
In 2011 Giorgi was invited to serve as the Deputy Ombudsman at the newly established office of the Business (Tax) Ombudsman, where he basically contributed to the formation if the institution. In 2013 Giorgi left public sector for business and joined a local IT and consulting company Onyx Consulting. There he contributed to attracting a strategic investor \u2013 Asseco \u2013 the largest IT company of Central and Eastern Europe, and apart from being a Deputy Director, was made a partner with minority shares.<\/p>\n
In early 2015 Giorgi joined Transparency International – Georgia \u2013 one of the largest and most active local NGOs, and a local Chapter of Global Anti-corruption movement. Giorgi graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO \u2013 University) and holds BA in Regional Studies\/International Relations and MSc in International Relations\/Political Science. Giorgi also holds MA from UCL in Comparative Business Economics. Giorgi is married and has a daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14156,"template":"","years_alumni":[253],"class_list":["post-14155","alumni_post_type","type-alumni_post_type","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","years_alumni-253"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n