Ilia Darchiashvili ( ka, ილია დარჩიაშვილი; born 21 February 1981) is a Georgian government official, diplomat, and a former bank manager, who served as the

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს საგარეო საქმეთა მინისტრი) is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, the governmental body of Georgia ...

from 4 April 2022 to November 28, 2024.

Education and early career

Born in Sighnaghi in then- Soviet Georgia, Darchiashvili graduated from the

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr; often shorten ...

(TSU) with a degree in economics in 2002. He further obtained master's degrees in economics and business administration from the TSU in 2004 and Grenoble School of Management, France, in 2011, respectively. Darchiashvili worked as a manager for the Bank Republic/

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in Tbilisi from 2003 to 2012, when he joined the

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as a staff member of the Embassy of Georgia to Poland. In 2014, Darchiashvili became Deputy Director of the state-run Municipal Development Fund during the first tenure of

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

Irakli Garibashvili and, next year, he was promoted as its director. In the same year, he was moved to the position of First Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure. He then was

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at the Foreign Ministry from 2016 to 2017. He served as Georgia's Ambassador to Poland from 2017 to 2021. Shortly after Irakli Garibashvili's return as Prime Minister, Darchiashvili became Head of the Administration of the Government of Georgia in March 2021.

Foreign minister

On 4 April 2022, Prime Minister Garibashvili appointed him

after the predecessor, David Zalkaliani stepped down to become Georgia's ambassador to the United States. Ukrainian Foreign Minister

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said he was "looking forward" to working together with the newly appointed Georgian counterpart. During his ministry, Georgia gained EU candidate status. In his ministerial capacity, Darchiashvili's first visit was to

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for the Meeting of

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Ministers of Foreign Affairs on 6 April 2022.

Ranks and awards

Ilia Darchiashvili holds the

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