Beka Bajelidze joined IWPR in 2004 to manage IWPR’s projects in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as in the republics of the North Caucasus. Before that, he worked as project manager with the OSCE and project assistant with the US National Democratic Institute. He has a degree in foreign languages and a master’s degree in public administration from the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs. Beka is a native speaker of Georgian, fluent in English, Russian and proficient in Turkish.