Daily management

The Board delegates the daily management of the EUGBC and the representation of the EUGBC within the scope of daily management to the Secretary General.

Ambassador Konstantine Zaldastanishvili, former Ambassador of Georgia to the Benelux countries and to the European Communities, has been appointed to this position on a fixed term contract.

Ambassador Konstantine Zaldastanishvili

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Born on - 23 December, 1960
Nationality - Georgian
Marital Status - married two daughters

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

10.2005 - Present - Secretary General of the EU Georgia Business Council (EUGBC)

11.2000 - 10.2005 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Benelux Countries, Head of the Mission of Georgia to the European Communities

08.1998 - 11.2000 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Head of the Mission of Georgia to the European Communities

12.1995 - 08.1998 - Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of Georgia; National Coordinator of the EU Technical Assistance Program TACIS in Georgia; Alternative Governor of the EBRD from the Georgian Side; Chairman of the Governmental Commission for Georgian-German Economic Cooperation

01.1994 - 12.1995 - Minister-Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of Georgia to Germany

04.1993 - 01.1994 - Head of Division of International Relations in the Tbilisi City Municipality

01.1993 - 04.1993 - Head of Division of Bilateral Economic Relations and International Economic Organizations of the State Committee of Foreign Economic Relations of Georgia

07.1992 - 01.1993 - Head of Division of Foreign Investments and Credits of the State Committee of Foreign Economic Relations of Georgia

01.1991 - 07.1992 - Deputy Director of the Institute of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering of the Georgian Technical University, Associate Professor

10.1987- 01.1991 - Assistant of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering of the Georgian Technical University

09.1983 - 10.1984 - Laboratory Assistant of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering of the Georgian Technical University

10.1982 - 09.1983 - Engineer of the Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering of the Georgian Polytechnic Institute

EDUCATION:

10.1989 - 08.1990 - Foreign Scientist, Probationer at the Faculty of Technical Science of the Erlangen-Nurnberg Technical University (Germany)

09.1984 - 10.1987 - Post-graduate student of the Dresden technical University (Germany), Doctoral Dissertation

09.1977 - 07.1982 - Student of the faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering of the Georgian Polytechnic Institute, Tbilisi