Levan Izoria

Levan Izoria was born in Georgia on February 5, 1974. He graduated from the Law Faculty of the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (with honors) in 1996 and subsequently completed Master's Degree at the Law Faculty of the Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany (with honors) between 1998-1999. Levan Izoria holds a PhD degree in Law from the Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany (with honors).[1]

In 1992-1995, Levan Izoria was a Chair of Law Faculty Students' Scientific Council and a Lecturer of Law Theory and Constitutional Law Department of Law Faculty (1995-1998) at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Between 1999-2002, Izoria served as an assistant to Director of Göttingen State Teaching and Political Science Institute in Germany.

Since 2002, Levan Izoria was Senior Scientific Officer at T. Tsereteli Law Institute of Science Academy. Between 2002-2005, he worked as an assistant-Professor of Law Theory and Constitutional Law Department of Law Faculty at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

Izoria was a representative of the German Konrad-Adenauer Political Foundation in the South Caucasus (2003-2004) and Rector of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (2004-2006).

Levan Izoria was a Dean and a Professor at the Law Faculty at University of Georgia (2006-2007) and a Scientist-Researcher at German University of Administrative Sciences - Speyer (Scholarship of Humboldt Foundation) (2007-2009). He served as an Associated Professor at Georgian-American University (2009-2011) and at Caucasus Law School (2009-2010). Between 2010-2011, Izoria conducted academic research at Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Between 2011-2014, he became a Full Professor at Grigol Robakhidze University and the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (2014-2016).

Since 2003, Izoria worked on the reforms of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and was the author of Concept of Strategic Development.[2]

Between 2004-2006, Levan Izoria was a Rector of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. His name was related to the reform of Patrol Police of Georgia, which contributed to his status of a reformer. Izoria resigned the abovementioned position in 2006.

Levan Izoria started active political life since 2009, as a member of opposition. He joined political party of Irakli Alasania “Free Democrats” and became the member of political board. Meanwhile, he was one of the active supporter of reorganization and depolarization of Police and in this regard was the author of various projects. Among those projects is “Protected Citizen – Protected Policeman”.

In 2011, Levan Izoria was one of the leaders of coalition “Georgian Dream”. He led the thematic subgroup of National security and Defence group named Law enforcement and Security.

After “Georgian Dream” came to power, Izoria continued working at Law enforcement Ministries. Between 2012-2015, he was Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia and Deputy Head of State Security Service of Georgia (2015-2016).

Levan Izoria was appointed as a Minister of Defence of Georgia on August 1, 2016. On August 1, 2019, Military Team of the United States Embassy to Tbilisi presented Certificate of Achievement in recognition of outstanding leadership and contributions from 1 August 2016 through 1 August 2019 and beyond.[3]

Levan Izoria has a wife and three children. He speaks English, German and Russian languages