Grigol Mgaloblishvili
Guest ContributorAmbassador Grigol Mgaloblishvili is a career diplomat who has served in the Georgian Foreign Service for 20 years. Before joining the National Defence College of the UAE as an Interim Dean/Associate Professor he was a Visiting Distinguished Faculty Member of the College of International Security Affairs at National Defence University (NDU), Washington DC. Throughout his career he served as the Prime-Minister of Georgia, Permanent Representative of Georgia to NATO, as the Georgian Ambassador to Türkiye and as a non-resident Georgian Ambassador to Albania and Bosnia Herzegovina. He also held different positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, such as the Director of European Department and Deputy Director of the US Department.