Shota Utiashvili

Shota Utiashvili is the Senior Fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International studies since January 2016.

Mr. Utiashvili has more over 15 years of work experience in international relations, security, EU integration and analytical fields.

In 2012-2015 he was the Fellow at the Tbilisi Centre for Policy Analysis, Free University. In 2012 (September-November)

Mr. Utiashvili was the First Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Penitentiary.

In 2012 (July-September) he was the Director of Department of International and Public Affairs as well as the advisor of the Prime Minister at the State Chancellery of Georgia.

In 2004-2012 Mr. Utiashvili worked at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and held the position of Director of Department of Information and Analysis.

Before that, in 2003-2004 he worked as a journalist at the daily newspaper “24 HOURS.

In 2002 he was the Fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, conducting research on Government Institutions in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

In 2001-2002 he was the Fellow at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Utiashvili holds a degree in International Law and International Relations from Tbilisi State University (1994-1999).

He is an Alumni of the program in National Security and Public Policy (GFSIS, 2001-2002)

Mr. Utiashvili has certificates from Monterey Institute of International Studies in International Non-Proliferation Programme (2001) and from Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Black Sea Security Programme (2012).