Ambassador's Biography

BEKA DVALI 

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia

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  accreditations  as  non-resident Ambassador  of  Georgia (with  residence  in 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 2020 – October 2022 – Dean 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 2000 – Delivering 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)