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GEORGIA - H.E. Ketevan Tsikhelashvili

Credentials: 30.09.2020

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Born on August 21, 1978 in Kutaisi, Georgia

EDUCATION

Summer 2007: Center for European Studies , University of Lymerick, Ireland
Jean Monnet Summer School on European Integration / Special Training for the professors of the European Studies

2006-current: Ilia State University, Georgia
Ph.D. student at the Faculty for Philosophy and Social Sciences

1999-2000: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
MA degree in International Relations and European Studies
Diploma accredited by the Open University, London, UK (Credits: 10; Grade:A-)

1995-1999: Tbilisi State University, Georgia
BA degree in International Relations

1998-1999: Civic Education Project (CEP) courses, Tbilisi, Georgia, sponsored by CEP, Budapest, Hungary
Honor Certificates (four courses)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 2016 – June 2020: Office of the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality
State Minister
October 2012 – August 2016: Office of the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality
First Deputy State Minister
January – October 2012: Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, Georgian National Platform
Chairwoman, elected (association of 115 leading NGOs)
December 2006 and January 2010 – current: Foundation Liberal Academy-Tbilisi (LAT), Tbilisi-based NGO Founder / Director
November 2007– December 2009: European Initiative of LAT –Think Tank
Founder / Director
December 2002 – December 2011: European Stability Initiative (ESI – Brussels- Berlin-Istanbul)
Analyst in Georgia
May 2003 – September 2006: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
- Coordinator of the Projects for Georgia and the South Caucasus Dialogue
- Freelance Consultant in Georgia
November 2001 – April 2003: Office of the State Minister of Georgia on Conflict Resolution Issues
Special Assistant to the State Minister/
Senior Specialist in charge of International Relations unit
April 2002 – April 2005: International Organization on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN) Tbilisi, Georgia
Program Manager/Senior Analyst
June/September 2002: Center for OSCE Research (CORE) Hamburg University, Germany
Performance Records of UN and OSCE Field Missions of Varying Size
February /September 2001: External researcher
December 2000 - February 2001/July/August 2000: NATO Parliamentary Assembly Brussels, Belgium
Research Associate, Defense and Security Department/Economic Department
September 2000 - September 2001/ May 1998 - August 1999: European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) Flensburg, Germany
Visiting Research Associate
September-December 1998: University of Cambridge, Carnegie Corporation of NY, ECMI joint project on “Complex Power Sharing as a Novel Way of Addressing Self-determination Disputes”, chapter contribution; Contribution to World McMillan Encyclopedia on Ethnic Minorities in Europe
October 1996 - August 1998: Transitions Online (TOL) Prague, Czech Republic Editorial Assistant
Working at the Caucasus/CIS news digest and analysis desk. Coordinating
work-team of 11 stringers from CEE and former Soviet Union countries.

• Foreign Policy Research and Analysis Center, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia
Political Analyst
Analysis of major international events; (focus – CIS/CEE);
Support for monthly bulletin edition for the MFA.

• International Organization for Fair Elections and Democracy
Assistant to the Director

• UN Organization of Youth (UNOY) Georgian Net
Program Department
Coordinating the process of project development and fundraising.

Languages: Georgian (native), English (fluent), Russian (fluent), German (intermediate)

Fotos: HBF