Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili
Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili was born on May 23, 1977, in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a jurist and a politician formerly serving as Minister of Justice, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of the National Security Council, Deputy Prime Minister, and State Minister for Reintegration of Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Biography
Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili trained as a lawyer in the International Committee of the Red Cross and later in IRIS Georgia, office of the University of Maryland's Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector. From 1997 to 1999, she became chief Specialist Center for Foreign Policy Research and Analysis in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georigia. In 2001, she was a lawyer at Lawyer's Committee of Human Rights in New York. In December 2002, she interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Hague, Netherlands till 2003. After, in 2004, Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili became the Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia. In September 2005, she was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Interior. In May 2006, she became chairperson of Tibilisi Court of Appeals and after she was Minister of Justice of Georgia. In 2008, she became Prosecutor General of Georgia, and subsequently, she was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs till December 2008. Soon after, she was a member of the National Security Council. From 2010 to 2012, she became State Minister for Reintegration.
Education
Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili graduated from the Faculty of International Law and International Relations at Tibilisi State University in 1999.
Futher Information
ICD - The BERLIN International Economics Congress 2013 Berlin, 6th-10th March, 2013
External links and References
The Hon. Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili biography. Institute for Cultural Diplomacy. Wikipedia biographies.
