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Ambassador's Biography

BEKA DVALI 

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia

Diplomatic Rank: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

 

 

Date of Birth:                       31 July 1977

Place of Birth:                      Tbilisi, Georgia

Marital Status:                      Married to Nino LEZHAVA, has son Luka DVALI

 

EDUCATION

 

1994-1999 - Diploma in Law, Faculty of Law,  Ivane  Javakhishvili  Tbilisi  State  University, Georgia

 

2001-2002 - LL.M  (Master  of  Laws)  in  Comparative  and  European  Law  (Magister  Iuris Communis), Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, The Kingdom of the Netherlands


1999-2012 - In Georgia and abroad completed various training programmes and courses in law studies, legal drafting, international law, international humanitarian law, international relations and conflict resolution

 

DIPLOMATIC SERVICE

 

1999 - Intern, Department of International Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia

Tbilisi, Georgia

 

2000 - Third Secretary, United Nations Division, Department of International Organisations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia - Tbilisi, Georgia

 

2000-2002 - Second  Secretary,  United  Nations  Division,  Department  of  International

Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia – Tbilisi, Georgia

 

2002-2004 -  Head,  United  Nations  Division,  Department  of  International  Organisations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia - Tbilisi, Georgia

 

2004-2008 - Senior Counsellor, Embassy of Georgia to the United States of America, Mexico and Canada - Washington DC, USA

 

2008 - Counsellor, Department of Economic, Cultural and Humanitarian Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia - Tbilisi, Georgia

 

2009 - Deputy Director, Department of European Integration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of

Georgia - Tbilisi, Georgia;

 

2009-2012 - Minister, Deputy Head of Mission, Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ireland - London, United Kingdom

 

2 November 2012-28 January 2013 Ambassador-designate of Georgia to the Republic of South

Africa

 

 

Since 29 January 2013 to 31 October 2022 Ambassador of Georgia to the Republic of South Africa

 

2013-2022 Accorded  accreditationas  non-resident Ambassador  of  Georgia (with  residencin Pretoria) to  12  countries of Southern African Development Community (SADC),  as  follows:  Republic  of  Mozambique  (since  16.10.2013); Republic of Mauritius (since 6.05.2014); Republic of Botswana (since 13.06.2014); Republic of Madagascar (since 9.10.2014); Republic of Zambia (since 18.02.2015); Republic of Zimbabwe (since 25.02.2016); Republic of Namibia (since 25.10.2016); Republic of Angola (since 20.11.2016);  Kingdom of Lesotho (since 9.03.2017);  Kingdom of Eswatini (since 3.08.2017); Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (since 11.08.2018); Republic of Malawi (since 9.01.2020)

 

 

January 2020October 2022Dean of the Group of European Ambassadors accredited to South Africa

 

Since 1 November 2022 - Ambassador – Designate of Georgia to the Commonwealth of Australia

 

 

ACADEMIC ACTIVITY

 

2000-2001 - Invited  lecturer  in  Comparative  Constitutional  Law  and  in  International

Humanitarian Law at the Georgian Independent Diplomatic Academy (GIDA)

 

Since 2000Delivering lectures on foreign policy and international law issues on ad hoc basis

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

2000 - Monograph "Judicial Power in Foreign States", comparative research published in Tbilisi with support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

 

2001 - "Legal System of Australia" and "Legal System of New Zealand" in The Legal Systems of Foreign States, published in Tbilisi, Georgia

 

Since 2000 - Articles/research papers on the various topics of international law, human rights law, constitutional law, environmental law and media law

 

LANGUAGES

 

Mother tongue: Georgian

 

Foreign Languages: English (Fluent), Russian (Fluent)