Tamar Beruchashvili | |
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თამარ ბერუჩაშვილი | |
Georgia Ambassador to United Kingdom | |
Assumed office March, 2016 |
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President | Giorgi Margvelashvili |
Preceded by | Revaz Gachechiladze |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 11 November 2014 – 1 September 2015 |
|
President | Giorgi Margvelashvili |
Prime Minister | Irakli Garibashvili |
Preceded by | Maia Panjikidze |
Succeeded by | Giorgi Kvirikashvili |
Minister of Euro-Atlantic Integration | |
In office 17 February 2004 – 27 December 2004 |
|
President | Mikheil Saakashvili |
Prime Minister | Zurab Zhvania |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Giorgi Baramidze |
Personal details | |
Born |
Tbilisi, Soviet Union (now Georgia) |
9 April 1961
Political party | None |
Alma mater |
Peoples' Friendship University Indiana University, Bloomington Tbilisi State University |
Religion | Georgian Orthodoxy |
Tamar Beruchashvili (Georgian: თამარ ბერუჩაშვილი) (born April 9, 1961) is a Georgian diplomat and politician who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 11, 2014 until September 1, 2015, and is designated to become Georgia's Ambassador to the United Kingdom as of March 2016. She had previously served as Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations from 1998 until 2000 and Minister of Euro-Atlantic Integration in 2004. She also worked as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2003 and again from 2013 until her appointment as minister in 2014. Beruchashvili also worked as a professor at Tbilisi State University from 2000 until 2010. She was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on November 11, 2014, and held that post until September 1, 2015 when she was replaced by Giorgi Kvirikashvili. Beruchashvili was later designated as the new Georgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and is took up the post in March, 2016.