Giorgi Gigauri
Chief, Technical Cooperation Services
Giorgi (George) Gigauri is serving as the Chief of Mission of IOM, the UN Migration Agency, in Bangladesh since 2018. Previously he was the IOM Chief of Mission in Papua New Guinea, leading programmes in emergency response, community stabilization, and migration management. Prior to this, he was the IOM Deputy Chief of Mission in Indonesia, overseeing a programme portfolio, which included humanitarian emergencies, migrant protection, governance and development. Giorgi is a national of Georgia and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford, Bachelor’s degree from the University of Warwick, and a PhD from The Grigol Robakidze University. He speaks Georgian, Ukrainian, Russian and English.