Giorgi Papelishvili

Giorgi Papelisvili is a founder and administrative manager at the Georgian Strategic Analysis Center. He possesses extensive experience in management and leadership. From 2011 to 2013, Giorgi served as the Chairman of the youth wing of the “Christian-Democratic Movement.” During this time, Giorgi became the chairman of the “Youth Center of Civic Activities”—a position he still holds today. Giorgi later led the Foundation for the Development of Georgia’s Administration from 2015 to 2016 and became an executive assistant of “State for the People”. Giorgi earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in processing materials artistically from the Georgian Technical University. He has been actively involved in public and political activities since 2007, and has 10 years of experience working in youth-activist circles. Giorgi has completed several courses in PR, marketing communications, and diplomacy at the Georgian-American University and the School of Diplomacy and Security at the Rondeli Foundation (Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies). As a graduate of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s “Leaders’ Academy”, the UN “Political Ideologies and Electoral Management” program, and a two-time winner of IRI (International Republican Institute) and USAID’s joint project addressing youth political debates, Giorgi has been actively involved in local and international educational projects.