Foreign Minister of the Republic of Georgia

Grigol Vashadze was born in Tbilisi, on 19 July 1958. He graduated with honours from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, faculty of international law 1981. From 1981 until 1988 he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Department of International Organisations, Department of Cosmos and Nuclear Weapons. In 1990 he graduated from the Diplomatic Academy as a post-graduate student. From 1990 until 2008 he was engaged in private business and headed the companies founded by himself: ‘Georgia Arts Management’ and ‘Gregory Vashadze and BR’. On November 1, 2008 he was appointed Minister of Culture, Monument Protection and Sport and on February 6, 2008 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.