2002
Temuri Yakobashvili
President
TY Strategies LLC
Ambassador Temuri Yakobashvili is President of TY Strategies, a boutique consulting firm advising governments, non-governmental institutions, and businesses across the U.S., Europe, and Eurasia. He also Founder and President of the New International Leadership Institute, non-for profit organization, dedicated to reforms, good governance, and anti-corruption. Temuri was previously Executive Vice President of the global strategy consultancy, PASS, LLC. Until fall of 2014, he held position of the Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US.
From early February 2011 to March 2013 he served as an Ambassador of Georgia to the United States. Prior to his posting, he was Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Reintegration in the Government of Georgia. Temuri is a career diplomat who joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia in 1991 and held various positions, including that of a Director of the Department for USA, Canada and Latin America. He holds a diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary granted by the President of Georgia.
Temuri is the co-founder and has served as Executive Vice-President of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, the leading think tank in the Caucasus region. He now chairs its governing board. Temuri is co founder of the Atlantic Council of Georgia, as well as of the Council of Foreign Relations of Georgia. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs and the Europe House of Georgia.
Temuri is a graduate of the Department Physics from the Tbilisi State University. In 1998 he was trained on Mid-career Diplomatic Courses at the Center of Political and Diplomatic Studies at Oxford University. In 2006 he was visiting researcher at the Silk Road Study Center of Uppsala University, Sweden.
Temuri frequently contributes to Georgian and international media on issues of regional security and transformation. I February 2012 Temuri was decorated with Presidential Medal of Excellence. He is married to Ms. Yana Fremer, and they have two children. He speaks Georgian, English, Russian, and Hebrew.Â