Salomé Zourabichvili

Salomé Zourabichvili, Georgia’s fifth president and the first woman to hold the office, led the country from 2018 onwards. Born in Paris to Georgian émigrés, she built a distinguished career in the French diplomatic service before serving as France’s Ambassador to Georgia and later Georgia’s Foreign Minister. She advanced Georgia’s EU–NATO integration, negotiated Russian troop withdrawals and chaired UN sanctions work on Iran. A strong advocate of Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration, she has founded political initiatives including the Petra Declaration and the Georgian Charter to safeguard Georgia’s pro-European trajectory.