Professional Summary

Since 2023: Founder, Owner and Director General of INTELINSIGNIA LTD

Since 2022: Independent consultant on the topics of Security Management and sustainability;

Since 2013: Invited Expert for Border Security, National Security and WMD Non-proliferation topics (international organizations);

2019 - 2022: member of Advisory Group (AdSec) to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);

2018 - 2022: Chair (Co-Chair) of the FLO Network Regional Group Europe and Central Asia, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) initiative;

2001 - 2022: Active Duty Officer in the sphere of Border Security and State Security of Georgia, with operational and managerial experience such as:

Georgian Border Security Front Line Operations and Field Intelligence Officer;

Organizing and conducting bilateral and multilateral international activities;

Participating in the process of the Georgian Border Police reform from soviet military-style to the intelligence-led law-enforcement agency (in cooperation with international experts);

Institutional capacity building - Developing legal documents;

Operational capability building - Developing detection architecture for radioactive materials at border crossing points (including deployment of technological systems and equipment, trainings, SOP-s);

Operational capability building – Developing and deployment of border surveillance systems on the land border of Georgia (arranging Border operations management systems, staff training, developing instructions);

Security Analysis capability building – Development of the National and Border Security Risk Analysis System, including methodology, trainings, software tools.

Education: 

Master of Law, The Academy of the State Security of Georgia, Border Security Faculty (1996 – 2001)

Skills:

Visionary development, Analysis, Project management, Teaching and delivery of trainings, Communication and Result-oriented facilitation.

Native language: Georgian

Foreign Languages: English, German and Russian

David MAKHARADZE

National Security Colonel (retired)

Georgian

Married, 5 Children

Born on 24 December 1978