Senior Fellow

Amb. Shota Gvineria is a subject matter expert in national security strategy, NATO integration, hybrid threats, cyber defense policy, and democratic resilience. With over 20 years of experience in diplomacy, defense policy, and international cooperation, he has advised heads of state, led interagency coordination efforts, and represented Georgia in major international institutions. His current research focuses on countering hybrid warfare, strategic communications, and the evolving security architecture in the Euro-Atlantic and Black Sea regions. He is particularly interested in the intersections of security policy, democratic governance, and whole-of-society approaches to resilience and international collaboration.

Amb. Gvineria has been working in various positions in Georgia’s public sector. Among other positions, Shota Gvineria served as the Deputy Secretary at the National Security Council of Georgia. He held the position of the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Minister of Defense of Georgia in 2015-16. Through 2010-14, he served as the Ambassador of Georgia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 2010 he was promoted to the position of a Director of European Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Prior to that, he served as a Head of NATO Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. In the period from 2006 until 2008, Shota Gvineria was posted as the Counselor of the Georgian Mission to NATO.

Amb. Gvineria joined the Baltic Defence College as the lecturer in Defence and Cyber Studies in July of 2019. He is regularly teaching and conducting training programs in several civilian and defence universities around the Euro-Atlantic area. He is also a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Research Center since 2017. 

Amb. Gvineria holds MA in Strategic Security Studies from Washington’s National Defense University. He also earned his MA in International Relations from the Diplomatic School of Madrid and Public Administration from the Georgian Technical University.