One Past, Many Futures
LMC 2019
Agenda
Salome Zourabichvili
President of Georgia
In 2016, Salome Zourabichvili won her election as an independent Deputy in the Parliament
of Georgia. From 2010-15, she led the United Nations Security Council monitoring group on
sanctions against Iran. From 2006-15, she was an Associate Professor of International Relations at
the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, France. From 2004-5, she served as Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Georgia. After leaving this post, she founded on 11 March 2006 the political party The
Way of Georgia. In 2003, she was appointed as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of
France to Georgia. From 1974-2004, she worked as a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of France in several embassies (Italy, United States, and Chad) and with French representations to
international organizations (UN, NATO, Western European Union, OSCE).
Updated: March 16, 2019