SCHOOL OF LAW
ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Direction:Law and Politics
Position:Associate Professor





Irakli Porchkhidze is the Co-founder and Vice-president of the Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies (GISS) since 2012.

From 2010 until October 2012 Irakli Porchkhidze has been the First Deputy State Minister for Reintegration. He was in charge of the policy development towards the occupied territories of Georgia and headed the Georgian delegation to the humanitarian working group of the Geneva Talks between Georgia and Russia.

In 2008-2010 he served as the Deputy National Security Advisor to the President of Georgia and Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia. In this capacity he led the National Strategic Review process, which included the development of the National Threats Assessment Document, the National Security Concept among other strategic documents.

In 2004-2006 he launched and headed the Civil Registry Agency (biggest service delivery entity under the Ministry of Justice of Georgia). The reform of the agency became the flagship case of Georgia’s institutional transformation.

Before joining the government, Irakli worked at the Open Society Georgia Foundation managing programs designed to support rule of law and good governance initiatives.

Irakli holds master’s degree in International Affairs and Political Science from the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University (New York) and Central European University (Budapest). He is also a fellow of the Draper Hills Program of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.

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