Biography

Ambassador Natalie Sabanadze has been a Cyrus Vance Visiting Professor in International Relations at Mount Holyoke College between 2021–2023. Prior to this, she served as Head of the Georgian Mission to the EU and Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg since 2013. From 2005–2013, she worked as a senior official at the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in The Hague, where she held several positions, including Head of the Central and South East Europe Section and later, Head of the Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia Section. She holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a D.Phil. in Politics and International Relations from Oxford University. Natalie Sabanadze has published and lectured extensively on post-communist transition, nationalism and ethnic conflict, Russian foreign policy, and the EU in the world.