Education
He studied social geography at State University of Tbilisi. 1985 he received a Doctor of Philosophy (Candidate of Science) in Economic and Social Geography.
He studied social geography at State University of Tbilisi. 1985 he received a Doctor of Philosophy (Candidate of Science) in Economic and Social Geography.
In March 2013 he had been appointed by president Mikheil Saakashvili Georgia"s ambassador to the United States. 1994 he became a post-graduate student at the Department for Social and Economic Geography of the Tbilisi State University. He took part in international training: "Japan Europe and North America: Toward a G-3 World?", Salzburg Seminar, "Decision Making in the United States. Foreign Policy", United States Information Agency International Visitor Program. He speaks English, Russian and French.
1993-1994 he became deputy head of the First European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.
1994-1995 he was State Advisor of the Staff of the former President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, 1996-1997 Assistant to the President on national security affairs, 1997-2000 head of the section for foreign policy analysis at the State Chancellery of the President of Georgia and worked as Chief Foreign Policy Advisor. 1999 he was awarded with the diplomatic rank of an extraordinary and plenipontentiary Ambassador.
2000-2001 he was as Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (United States of America). From 2001until present he has been working as Senior Fellow at Tbilis-based think-tank GFSIS. He is widely known as a respected expert on regional security and cooperation in the Caucasus, on European Integration, conflict solution and political risk analysis.
In March 2013 Archil Gegeshidze was appointed Georgia’s new ambassador to the United States.
He announced as ambassador it will be his priority to use the support of the United States to accelerate Georgia’s Euro-integration, strengthen its defense ability and to retain stability of the non-recognition policy. Among his priorities are to deepen trade relations and to attract investments from the United States, cooperation in cultural, educational and science fields. On April 15, 2013 he will hand out his credentials to United States-President Barack Obama.
He will be the successor of ambassador Temuri Yakobashvili, who resigned on 8 November 2012 after the change of government in Georgia.
