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IRINA TSERTSVADZEBakhtrioni Str.39. Apt.40
Tbilisi. Georgia 0194
+995 32 28 13 92 Office
+995 99 56 07 45 Cell phone
Professional Experience :
2008-present Georgian Parliament, Committee on European Integration
Executive Assistant of the Chairman
Tbilisi. Georgia
Obligations:
- Working as an editor of the Committee monthly newsletter “European Time” on Georgia EU relations.)financed by (Konrad Adenauer Foundation).
- Anchoring every week radio program “European Time” about EU -Georgia Relations.(joint with Konrad Adenaur Foundation).
- Working on analytical materials for the committee meetings with EU related NGOs and governmental organizations.
- Responsible for renewing Committees web-page.
- Writing reports on Committee Chair-mans meetings.
- Planning regional visits of the Chair-man of the Committee on European Integration.
Foreign Language News Broadcasting Georgian Service “Voice of America”
International Broadcaster
WashingtonDC. USA
Obligations:
- Anchoring radio-show.
- Shooting original video stories for VOA Georgian.
- Editing, translating recording.
- Versioning house stories for Georgian auditorium.
- Covering related to Georgian events in WashingtonDC.
- Making TV and Radio Interviews about related to Georgia topics with American experts and politicians.
- Preparing every week rubrics for radio-show :“Youth “ and “Washington Today”
- Translating, recording and editing house backgrounder reports.
Moscow office chief
Moscow. Russia
Obligations:
- Providing GPB with political news from Moscow and Russian region every day.
- Making live broadcasts for political- informational program “Moambe” 4 times a week.
- Covering the situation in hot spot or Northern Caucasus Region (Republics of Ingushetia, Chechnya).
- Covering August war 2008 from Georgian city Gori.
- Covering post -war separatist regions: South Osetia and Abkhazia.
- Organizing guests/participants from Moscow political society for GPB analytical programs.
Mass-media communications officer
Moscow. Russia
Obligations:
- Writing press-releases
- Distributing press-releases
- Organizing live broadcasts and interviews for Sports channel news and NTV
2006 Program “Vremechko” TV ATV (Moscow, Russia) – Correspondent.
2006 Program “Bloknot” TV Culture GTRK (Moscow, Russia) Correspondent.
2004-2005 “IMEDI morning” TV IMEDI (Tbilisi, Georgia) Co- anchor, Correspondent.
2003-2004 ”Duble-2” competition for young journalists, TV IMEDI (Tbilisi, Georgia)
FREELANCER
2002-2003 “Young journalist” university newspaper, (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2001-2002 “Step” youth newspaper, (Tbilisi, Georgia)
1998-1999 “Extra-NEWS” youth newspaper, (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Academic education :
- 2009 - present TbilisiIliaStateUniversity
Program of Political sciences
Degree: DoingPHD
- 2005 - 2008 - MoscowStateUniversity, (Moscow, Russia)
Degree: Specialist in Television Journalism( equivalent of bachelors degree, plus one year of Masters degree)
Diploma in “Georgia–Russian Political Stereotypes”
- 2002 - 2005 - TbilisiStateUniversity, faculty of international journalism
Degree: bachelor in International Journalism
- 2001 - 2002 - School of Arts, faculty of journalism.(Tbilisi.Georgia)
- 1991 - 2001 - I Experimental school (Tbilisi.Georgia)
- Course onCommunicative Skills. GeorgetownUniversitySchool of Continuing Studies. WashingtonDC. 2010
- WinterAcademy - 2009 “NATO at 60 – from experience to initiative”: CzechRepublic, Prague, 2009
- WinterAcademy - 2008 “An Enlarged NATO: Challenges and Prospects” Germany, Berlin, 2008
- Certificate for taking part in project “Mass media and Georgian social situation”
- Certificate in Professional anchoring speech
Georgian – Native
- English – Fluent
- Russian – Fluent
- German – Good
Taclan Suerdem
Voice of America. WashingtonDC
Head of Near East and Central Asian division.
David Darchiashvili
Parliament of Georgia. Committee on European
Chairman of the Committee
+995 32 28 17 08