Salome Samadashvili

Salome Samadashvili was born on April 2, 1976. She graduated from Allegheny College, Central European University and American University of Washington. From 1994 to 1995 she was a translator and program assistant for the US National Democratic Institute. In 1997-1998 she was a researcher at Herbert Scoville International Research Center in Montana. 1998 - Head of Chancellery at the Embassy of Georgia to the US. In 1999-2001 she was Assistant Professor of American University of Washington, 2000-2001 - Carana Corporation Legal Consultant, 2001-2002 - Washington International Education and Arts Center Program Specialist, 2002-2004 - US National Head of the Parliamentary Program of the Democratic Institute (Georgia, Kazakhstan), 2004-2005 - in the 6th member of the Parliament, 2005-2007 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Netherlands, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the European Union of the head of the mission. In 2013-2014 she was an Honorary Visiting Fellow of the Wilfred Martens Center for European Studies, and in 2015 Director of the Libyan Governance Program at the US National Democratic Institute (Malta-Tripoli, Libya). Since 2016 she is the founder and CEO of the NGO Center for Strategic Communication and Democracy and consulting firm Samadashvili International Consultants. Salome Samadashvili is an invited lecturer at the University of Georgia and Ilia Chavchavadze State University . Since May 5, 2016, she has been the Head of the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Georgia. She has been a member of the 9th convocation Parliament of Georgia since November 2016. In 2017 he holds the position of Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary faction "National Movement".