Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili

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A lecture by Eka Tkeshelashvili, Former Vice Prime-Minister of Georgia speaking at The Berlin International Economics Congress 2013


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.


Eka Tkeshelashvili
State Minister for Reintegration,

Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia

In office

20 November 2010 – 25 October 2012

President Mikheil Saakashvili
Preceded by Temur Iakobashvili
Succeeded by Paata Zakareishvili
Secretary of

National Security Council

In office

December 2008 – 20 November 2010

Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office

5 May 2008 – 6 December 2008

Preceded by David Bakradze
Succeeded by Grigol Vashadze
Personal details
Born 23 May 1977

Tbilisi, Georgia

Alma mater Tbilisi State University

Biography[edit]

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[edit]

Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili graduated from the Faculty of International Law and International Relations at Tibilisi State University in 1999.


Futher Information[edit]

ICD - The BERLIN International Economics Congress 2013 Berlin, 6th-10th March, 2013

ICD - The ICD Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy 2012 "The Power of the Arts & Culture to Promote Democracy & Global Peace" The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (BERLIN, December 13th - 16th, 2012)

Political offices
Preceded by Temur Iakobashvili State Minister for Reintegration,

Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia

20 November 2010 – 25 October 2012

Succeeded by

Paata Zakareishvili

Preceded by David Bakradze Minister of Foreign Affairs

5 May 2008 – 6 December 2008

Succeeded by

Grigol Vashadze

External links and References[edit]

The Hon. Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili biography. Institute for Cultural Diplomacy. Wikipedia biographies.