Areshidze, Irakly

Irakly Areshidze is a strategic consultant who was born in the Soviet Republic of Georgia. He came to the United States at the age of fourteen and graduated from Middlebury College in 2000 with high honors in political science. For the next two years he was a visiting scholar at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies. During this time he co-founded the Partnership for Social Initiatives, a Georgia-based think tank. In 2003-2004 he was the deputy campaign manager and chief strategist for the New Rights party, Georgia's main