Who is Georgia’s new Ambassador to NATO?

Georgia has a new Ambassador to NATO. Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili today signed the appointment of diplomat Alexander Maisuradze, who will start his duties on May 1.

From 2012 until now, the 41-year-old career diplomat has worked as the Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Republic of Austria, Deputy Permanent Representative of Georgia to the OSCE and other international organizations in Vienna, Austria.

Before this, Maisuradze worked at various positions at the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including as the Attaché in Disarmament and Arms Control Division of the Ministry, which he started in 1998.

The office of Georgia’s Representative to NATO is not an unfamiliar environment to him, as he was the Deputy Representative of Georgia to NATO for four years from January 2008 until February 2012.

After graduating from the Georgian Diplomatic Academy in 1998, Maisuradze underwent further training at Geneva Centre for Security Policy and at George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies.

He speaks English, Russian and Spanish and is married with three children.

The post of the Representative of Georgia to NATO has been vacant since January 26, 2015 when Levan Dolidze retired after political party Free Democrats left the ruling coalition Georgian Dream, as his brother Victor, is one of the leaders of Free Democrats.