Tamar Taliashvili
Tamar Taliashvili | |
|---|---|
თამარ ტალიაშვილი | |
| Georgian Ambassador to the United States | |
| Assumed office 10 June 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Irakli Kobakhidze |
| Preceded by | David Zalkaliani |
| Member of the Parliament of Georgia | |
| Assumed office 11 December 2020 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 December 1978 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Georgian Dream |
Tamar Taliashvili (born 13 December 1979) is a Georgian politician and diplomat, appointed to be Georgia's Ambassador to the United States. From 2020 to 2022, she has been a member of the Parliament of Georgia of the 10th convocation by party list, election bloc: „Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia“.[1]
She has served as Georgia's permanent representative to the Council of Europe from 2022, and in June 2025 was designated as Georgia's next ambassador to the United States.[2]
Previously, Taliashvili served as a Georgian Dream member of the Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo), a local self-government body, from 2014 to 2020. She also was the Vice President of the CoE’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities since 2018.[3] In previous positions, she worked as a Program Manager for USAID Fiscal Reform Projects, as a legal advisor to German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ, formerly GTZ), and as an expert for the Georgian International Oil Corporation. She is listed as a co-founder of the Georgian Association of Arbitrators (GAA), and has worked in private legal practice and with leading US law firms.[4]
By training she is a lawyer, with a degree from Tbilisi State University, and repeatedly studied in Germany also, in Saarbrücken (1998-1999) and at the Max Planck Institute for International Intellectual Property (2003).[5]
She is married to businessman Davit Kukhalashvili, the majority shareholder of supermarket chain Daily.[2][6] She is the daughter of Aleksandre Taliashvili, a judge who was arrested for taking a bribe in 2004.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "ცენტრალურმა საარჩევნო კომისიამ საქართველოს პარლამენტის 2020 წლის 31 ოქტომბრის არჩევნები შეაჯამა". ცესკო. 2020-12-03. Archived from the original on 2020-12-15. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ a b "What Assets Does Georgia's New Ambassador to the U.S., Tamar Taliashvili, Own?". bm.ge. 10 June 2025. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
- ^ "Tamar Taliashvili Named Georgia's New Ambassador to U.S." Civil Georgia. 10 June 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
- ^ "Tamar Taliashvili Biography". Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Georgia. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
- ^ "Parliament Website". Georgian Parliament website. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
- ^ ""Daily" Group Becomes the Leading Supermarket Chain in Georgia". Caucasus Business Weekly. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
- ^ "Judge Suspected of Corruption Arrested / კორუფციაში ეჭვმიტანილი მოსამართლე დააკავეს". Civil Georgia (in Georgian). 11 October 2004. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
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