Salome Samadashvili ( ka, სალომე სამადაშვილი; born 2 April 1976) is a Georgian politician and former diplomat who has served as a United National Movement (UNM)

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(MP) since 2020. She previously was an MP from 2004 to 2005 and again from 2016 until 2020.

Biography

Salome Samadashvili was born on 2 April 1976. She graduated from

Allegheny College he, תגל ערבה ותפרח כחבצלת , mottoeng = "Add to your faith, virtue and to your faith, knowledge" ( 2 Peter 1:5)"The desert shall rejoice and the blossom as the rose" (Isaiah 35:1) , faculty = 193 ...

, the

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and American University in Washington, D.C. From 1994 to 1995 she was a translator and programme assistant for the US National Democratic Institute. In 1997–1998 she was a researcher at Herbert Scoville International Research Center in Montana. In 1998, she became head of Chancellery at the Embassy of Georgia to the US. From 1999 to 2001, she was an assistant professor at the American University of Washington, as well as a Carana Corporation legal consultant from 2000 to 2001. From 2001 to 2002, she was a Washington International Education and Arts Center programme specialist, when she became US National Head of the Parliamentary Program of the Democratic Institute (Georgia, Kazakhstan), a position she held until 2004, when she became a Member of Parliament until 2005. In 2005, she was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the

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and the

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as head of mission, a position she retained until 201r. In 2013–2014 she was an Honorary Visiting Fellow of the Wilfred Martens Center for European Studies and in 2015 Director of the Libyan Governance Program at the US National Democratic Institute (Malta and Tripoli, Libya). In 2016 she founded and became the CEO of the NGO Center for Strategic Communication and Democracy and consulting firm Samadashvili International Consultants. Samadashvili is an invited lecturer at the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

and

Ilia State University Ilia State University ISU ( Georgian: ილიას სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი) was founded in 2006 as a result of a merger of six different academic institutions with long and varied histories. Current ...

. On 5 May 2016, she was appointed head of the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Georgia. She was inaugurated again as an MP at the 9th convocation of the Parliament of Georgia in November 2016. In 2017, she became deputy chairwoman of the parliamentary faction of the National Movement.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Samadashvili, Salome 1976 births Living people Allegheny College alumni Members of the Parliament of Georgia United National Movement (Georgia) politicians Women diplomats from Georgia (country)