Giorgi Vashakidze has more than ten years of experience as a manager and researcher in good governance, institutional reform, public administration design and democratic development. Throughout his professional life, he has worked extensively with national governments and international organizations. Until recently, he worked as a program manager in the democracy and governance office of the United States Agency for International Development in the South Caucasus.<\/p>\n
His portfolio encompassed programs to assist the Government to reform public administration, to help the Ministry of Education transform civic education culture in Georgia and to establish Centers of Civic Engagement to support democratic engagement between the local authorities and the population in ten regions in Georgia. Prior to that, he worked with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations Development Program to implement public administration reform in Georgia.<\/p>\n
He was also engaged with the Netherlands Institute of Multiparty Democracy to design political party capacity building projects. Currently, he is an external researcher at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) at the University of Lausanne where he pursues his doctoral studies. Simultaneously, he works as an international consultant for the United Nations Development Program. He holds master degrees in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University in Sweden and in Advanced Studies in Public Administration Design and Development from the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14171,"template":"","years_alumni":[253],"class_list":["post-14170","alumni_post_type","type-alumni_post_type","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","years_alumni-253"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n