Senior Fellow

Ambassador Vasil (Dato) Sikharulidze is a Senior Fellow at the Delphi Global Research Center and the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), specializing in Black Sea security, strategic connectivity, Russian hybrid warfare, and Euro-Atlantic integration. He brings over two decades of high-level experience in diplomacy, defense, and public policy. From 2005 to 2008, he served as Georgia’s Ambassador to the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and later as Minister of Defense of Georgia. His earlier roles include Deputy Minister of Defense, Undersecretary of the National Security Council, Deputy Head of Georgia’s Mission to NATO, and Head of the NATO Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ambassador Sikharulidze  currently directs the Master’s Program in Security Studies at Alte University and lectures at Ilia State University in Tbilisi. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar and George C Marshall center Alumni scholar. His recent publications address strategic connectivity in Eurasia, security sector reform, and Russia’s geopolitical influence in the post-Soviet space.

He holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a medical degree in psychiatry from Tbilisi State Medical University.