Grigol Julukhidze holds a B.A. degree (2011) in Political Science from Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia), an M.A. degree (2014) from the University of Silesia (Katowice, Poland), and a PhD degree (2020) from Caucasus University (Tbilisi, Georgia). He wrote a doctoral dissertation about the influence of Russian propaganda in central Europe. Grigol completed courses in international relations at Roma Tre University (Rome, Italy) and Pazmany Peter Catholic University (Budapest, Hungary). He studied Polish language and culture at Jagiellonian University. In 2011, Grigol Julukhidze received a certificate in conflict analysis from the University of California, Irvine (Irvine, USA).

During his professional career, Grigol Julukhidze served in various public, research, and international organizations in different countries. He was a UN project coordinator at the IOM (Lisbon, Portugal), an intern at the Parliament of Poland (Warsaw, Poland), a visiting scholar at the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (Bratislava, Slovakia), a visiting professor at Jagiellonian University, etc. Grigol teaches "Security Studies," "Disinformation and Propaganda," "Contemporary Hybrid Wars," and "South Caucasus: Political Systems and Challenges" at different Georgian and European universities. His main research topics are the Central European space, hybrid threats, information operations, and the South Caucasus.

Nowadays, Grigol works as an associate professor at East European University (Tbilisi, Georgia) and as a director of the Tbilisi-based think tank, The Foreign Policy Council.

In addition, Grigol Julukhidze is fluent in Georgian, English, Italian, Spanish, Polish, and Russian.

Contact: grigol.julukhidze.1@iliauni.edu.ge