Giorgi Rukhadze

Giorgi Rukhadze is a founding member and Director of European Studies at the Georgian Strategic Analysis Centre. With over 15 years of extensive work experience in media, international relations and European politics, he is an active foreign and security policy speaker and the author of dozens of blogs and articles. After heading the World News branch at IMEDI TV (2004-2007), he continued as the Director of the international office at the Christian Democratic Movement of Georgia (2008-2013) where he was charged with coordinating the party’s foreign policy and international relations. Since 2012, he has been a board member and the elected Vice-President of the Brussels-based European Christian Political Movement (ECPM). Mr. Rukhadze has served as a visiting professor at Ilia State University since 2010. He has a degree in International Economic Relations (Tbilisi State Institute for Production Organization 1992-1997) and a postgraduate diploma in British Studies (North London University 2001-2002).