Irakli Laitadze

Irakli Laitadze is a former career diplomat and academic. He served as Senior Counsellor at the Mission of Georgia to the European Union and previously headed the EU Political Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Following his diplomatic service, he worked as Chief Financial Officer at GMT Hospitality and later as Chief Executive Officer of the publishing house Artanuji.

Dr. Laitadze holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge, an MA with distinction from Tbilisi State University, and a diploma from the Diplomatic School of Madrid. He earned his PhD (magna cum laude) from Free University of Tbilisi.

He is an Adjunct Professor at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, where he lectures on politics and international relations, and a Senior Fellow at the EU Awareness Centre, a Brussels-based think tank.