Professional Experience:

December 2020 - Present
Head of Border Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.

August 2020 - December 2020
Acting Head of Border Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia;
First Deputy Head of Border Police of Georgia.

August 2019 - August 2020
Deputy Head of Counter-Terrorism Centre of the State Security Service of Georgia.

January 2019 - August 2019
Deputy Director of Counterintelligence Department of the State Security Service of Georgia.

2015 - 2019
Director of State Security Department of the State Security Service of Georgia.

2003 - 2015
Various managerial positions in the security field at the Ministry of Internal Affairs
(Every level from the Head of Subsection to the Deputy Director of the Department).

1996 - 2003
Various positions at the Ministry of Internal Affairs
(Main Division for Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption; Every level from Inspector to the Head of Division).

Education:

1997 - 2001
Tbilisi state university. Faculty of Law.  (with honours).

1992 - 1995
Postgraduate Study at the Faculty of Physics (with honours). Physics - Candidate of Mathematical Sciences. 

1986 - 1992
Tbilisi State University. Faculty of Physics (with honours).

Long-term Professional Development Courses (Programmes):

2019
Counter-Terrorism Course. Tokyo, Japan.

2004
Security Course, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

2002
European Branch of the International Law Enforcement Academy (International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA)). Budapest, Hungary.

2001
Counter-Terrorism Course. Cairo, Egypt.

2000
Academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Quantico, United States.

Foreign Languages:
English, Russian

Date of Birth:
June 16, 1969