CURRICULUM VITAE
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President,
International Centre for Geopolitical and Regional Studies, Tbilisi, since
August 1993
President,
Georgian Association for Innovative Technologies, Tbilisi, since June 1996
Co-director,
Institute for Policy Studies, Tbilisi, since December 2001
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Member, Editorial Board,
Georgia’s “National Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Programme”,
since August 2002
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Head of the preparatory
team for the Social Science Support Program at the Open Society - Georgia
Foundation (Soros Foundation) – 1998-1999
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Correspondent in Georgia
– Reporters Sans Frontieres, Paris: 1996 - 1999
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National Coordinator of
the Human Development Report for Georgia, Yearbooks of 1995, 1996 and 1997,
jointly prepared by the UN Development Programme and the Georgian Government.
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Member of the Team,
Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment for Transcaucasus, carried out by the
British Red Cross Society and the IFRC, December 1995 - August 1996
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Director General of the
French-Georgian joint venture company "ULEVI Ltd.", 1994-1995
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Co-founder and member of
the Executive Board of the "Open Society - Georgia" Foundation (Soros
Foundation): 1994
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Co-founder of the
Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD) in 1992 and
Vice-Chairman of the Board till January 1996
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Co-founder and member of
the Board of ITIC (International Telecommunications and Information Center) in
Tbilisi: 1995-1996
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Co-founder (in 1995) and
Board member of the GAIT (Georgian Association for Innovative Technologies)
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Co-founder and member of
the Board of the Library Development Foundation, Tbilisi, 1996-1998
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Presidential Committee
for Peaceful Caucasus, 1998-1999
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Co-founder of the
Georgian Ecological Association, and of the Caucasian Club Society, in 1988.
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Founder and the first
president of the Giorgi Chubinashvili Foundation, 1992-1994
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1992-1994 – Head, Social
Sciences Program at the European School of Management (ESM-Tbilisi).
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1990 - Director, School
of Business Management at the Caucasian Exchange
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1988-1989 - President,
Society with limited responsibility "Anima"
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School teacher of
physics at 53rd Secondary School of Tbilisi (1985-1986)
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Painter of TV and radio
towers (1980-1985).
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From 1979 until 1995 -
Researcher and Senior Lecturer, Tbilisi State University, Physics Department.
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1974-1977 - Post-graduate
studies at P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Theoretical Department, Moscow.
1972-1974 - Research fellow
at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
Graduated with excellence
from Tbilisi School No. 24 in 1966. Graduated in 1971 Tbilisi State University,
Physics Department, with certificate in theoretical physics.
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USIA International Visitor to
the USA, July 1996
USIA Exchange Visitor to the
USA, January 1999
Awards: - "Research and Writing Grant for
Individual Project" by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
April 1999 -October 2000
- Contemporary Issues Fellowship of the Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs, US Department of State / IREX, April 2000
(February-June 2001)
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NATO Euro-Atlantic
Partnership Council Research Fellowship for 2000 – 2002
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Open Society Institute
International Policy Fellowship, January 1, 2001 – November 30, 2003
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Teaching:
Lecture course: Crafting Democracies in the Caucasus, January term, Russian and
Eurasian Studies, Mount Holyoke College, MA, USA - 1999
Lecture courses: Quantum
Electrodynamics, General Physics: Physics Department, Tbilisi State University
- 1980-1995
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Memberships:
Board, Friends of Georgian
National Archives, USA
Central
Eurasia Studies Society (CESS)
The Network of Institutes and
Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee)
Consultative Council at the
Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Editorial Board,
Iberica-Caucasica
Series, Curzon Press, London (the
publishing company merged recently with Taylor & Francis)
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Languages: Georgian – native, Russian
and English – fluent, French and German – reading.