Giga Bokeria

Who is Giga Bokeria?

Giorgi Bokeria is a Georgian politician and the Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia from November 2010 to November 2013. He is one of the leaders of the United National Movement.

During 1989–1995 Bokeria was one of the leaders of student movement, in particular active member of Press Club of Tbilisi State University. Since 1992 he has been working as a journalist, in the newspaper 7 Dge, as a political editor of newspaper Mimomkhilveli - 1992–1993, journalist of Pikis Saati program of Channel 1 of State Radio -1993, journalist of Radio Liberty - 1994, political editor of newspaper Argumenti - 1995–1996, Akcentebi talk show host of Rustavi 2 broadcasting company - 1996.

In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and David Zurabishvili, Bokeria co-founded Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking the job of coordinating human rights programs and later the position of senior legal advisor.

In 2003, after a visit to Serbia to study peaceful revolution techniques, Bokeria helped bring Serb activists from the youth movement Otpor to Georgia to train students in the same techniques. As a result, the youth movement "Kmara" was established, which played a leading role in the November 2003 Rose Revolution. After the Revolution, Bokeria was elected to Parliament where he has authored a number laws to strengthen human rights in Georgia.