Revaz Beshidze

Revaz Beshidze was born on 5th of November, 1959. On July 2020, he was appointed as an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Slovak Republic. Mr. Beshidze is a career diplomat with much experience. During his career he worked as:

Ambassador of Georgia to the Portuguese Republic; Director of the Department for International Organizations;  Ambassador of Georgia to Japan;  Ambassador, Head of the Mission of Georgia to NATO; Director of the Department for Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration; Director of the Department for Politico-Military Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.

Mr. Beshidze has been granted a diplomatic rank of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

He is married and has two children.

EDUCATION

Royal College of Defence Studies RCDS. (London, 2005)

NATO Fellow (Brussels, 2000-2002)

US George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Senior Executive Course (Garmisch Partenkirchen, 2000)

NATO Defense College (NGC), Senior Course 93 (Rome, 1998-1999)

Tbilisi State University Post Graduate Course, Candidate Degree, PhD of Geography (1986-1990)

Tbilisi State University, qualification of Geographer (1976-1982)

Sokhumi Secondary School N 1 (1966-1976).

WORK EXPERIENCE

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Slovak Republic (2020 -)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Portuguese Republic (2016 -2020)

Director of the Department for International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (2013-2015)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to Japan (2009-2013)

Head of the Mission of Georgia to NATO, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (2006-2009)

Director of the Department for Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (2004-2006)

Executive Secretary of the State Interagency Commission on NATO (2000-2006)

Director of the Department for Politico-Military Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (2000-2004)

Deputy Director of the Department for Politico-Military Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (1998-2000)

Head of Military Cooperation Division, Department for Politico-Military Affairs, MFA (1997-1998)

Deputy Head of Military Cooperation Division, Department for Politico-Military Affairs, MFA (1997)

Third Secretary of the NATO and Disarmament Division, Department of International Organizations of the MFA (1996-1997)

Assistant of Professor, Head of the Geographic Department of the Sokhumi Branch of the Tbilisi State University (1989-1996)

Assistant of the Geographic Department, Lecturer of Abkhazian State University (1983-1989)

Engineer of the scientific-research institute "Atoll", Sokhumi Branch (1982-1983).

DIPLOMATIC RANK

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (from 2006).

ACTIVITY IN CIVIL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Member of Georgian State Delegations to the Georgia-Russian negotiations for the implementation of Istanbul Joint Statement, Head of Experts Group (1999 - 2004)

Summits, Ministerial and other meetings of the UN, NATO, OSCE, CoE, CIS, BSEC, GUAM and others (1997-2015)

Member of Governmental Delegations at NATO Summits in Prague (2002), Istanbul (2004), Riga (2006) and Bucharest (2008)

Co-coordinator of the NATO Georgia Commission (NGC, 2008-2009)

Participant of Geneva International Discussions (GID, 2013-2015)

Participation in the various International Conferences and Seminars in the Foreign Relations (1995-2020).

PUBLICATIONS

20 scientific articles

LANGUAGES

Georgian, English, Russian. French, Portuguese and Japanese (basic).

MARITAL STATUS

Married

CHILD DATA

Two children

HOBBIES

Jazz, classical Music, literature, cycling