Security Management
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Andro Barnovi
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MINISTRY OF DEFENSE OF GEORGIA
(Other)
Friedrich Roll
Deputy Minister of Defense
Rector, National Defense Academy
EU Parliament
SPD
+49-017********** 20, Gen. Kvinitadze str. w: +995-**-*******
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Georgia m: +995-***-******
Christopher P. Twomey *****.*******@*****.***
(Professor) My Company: http://www.mod.gov.ge
Assistant Professor and Associate My Blog: http://barnovi.blogspot.com/
Chair for Research
Department of National Security
Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
Summary
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Andro has over 15 year background of very active participation in reforms of Georgian public and civil
sector. While specialized in defense and security, business consultancy, information policies and
Douglas A. Borer institutional development, he had worked in the Ministry of Defense, Joint Staff of Armed Forces,
Parliament, civil sector and academia.
(Professor)
Associate Professor
In almost all of these capacities, he has been working on higher managerial positions, dealing with
Department of Defence Analysis,
sector-wide or nation-wide reforms. Due to his multi-related background, Andro has developed an in-
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depth understanding of the situation in entire public sector; has developed close personal contacts and
*******@***.*** spirit of cooperation with the representatives of various public agencies, independent experts,
politicians, civil activists, and he is himself well known to Georgian public through his wide-ranging
publicity during several years. In the past, Andro has proved to be a principled civil activist himself, with
(Professor)
Kalev I. Sepp strong liberal democratic platform and ability to withstand popular pressures when it comes to
defending values of statehood and democracy.
Associate Professor
Department of Defense Analysis,
Andro s experience in institutional capacity building is exceptional. Since July 2011, he was made
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831-***-**** Deputy Defense Minister of Georgia in charge of education and training, personnel policy and analytic
******@***.*** direction. At the same time, he kept the position of the rector of National Defense Academy of Georgia
(NDA) where he worked from November, 2011, and was responsible for the creation of the Academy
from scratch. Under his direct guidance, the academy incorporated entire officers' education system
(Professor)
Hy Rothstein while making up the "sandwich model" of interchangeable service and education during officers' entire
career. A 4-yr Cadet Bachelors College, Captains Career School, Command and General Staff School
Senior Lecturer
and the School of Advanced Defense Studies were all made parts of NDA under his supervision and
Department of Defence Analysis,
management. NDA started to operate according to Bologna process rules and its declared mission was
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831-***-**** identified to make the defense education an effective tool for regional cooperation, while inviting
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officers and civilians for education in NDA.
During 2005-2006, he served as executive director of the newly established Institute of Strategy and
Grigol Katamadze Development (STanD) and as its managing chair of board since 2006. Later, STanD became a
respectable organisation, which is consulting various public agencies, incl. Ministry of Defence, State
(Superior)
Minister for Reintegration, National Security Council, Ministry of Science and Education, various
Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary political parties, Trade Unions, SMEs, Civil Society organizations etc.
Embassy of Georgia to Ukraine
Also, Andro has been standing at roots of reforming of Georgian Trade Unions since 2005 as the
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author of its reform program, and focal point of contact for the European Trade Union organizations
Former Deputy Minister of that were assisting Georgian counterparts in carrying out the reforms. The program encompassed 27
Defence member Federations and the Confederation itself with its main component being capacity building
and structural optimization and reorganization, as well as development of internal procedures and
overall outlook of the TU movement. Later, Andro also had a brief period of work as an elected head of
Nodar Kharshiladze
the Confederation s Audit Committee.
(Superior)
First Deputy Minister Andro s earlier experience includes very intensive work for defence sector reforms in the capacity of
Ministry of Defense of Georgia
chief of staff of the Defence and Security Committee of the Georgian Parliament, and earlier as
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member of reformist group at the Deputy Defence Minister and head of Defence Policy Department
within the General Staff. Programming, planning, and budgeting system (PPBES), defence
restructuring, personnel reduction, drafting of strategic documents and harmonisation of security
sector s legislature with the EU model has been his main sphere of his occupation during this period
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Work History
PFP Consorcium
Georgia Apr 2012
SAC Member
Represent Geiorgia in Security Advisory Council (SAC)
Ministry of Defense
Tbilisi, Georgia Jul 2011 - Jul 2012
Deputy Minister
Portfolio: Education and Training, Personnel Policy, Information and Analysis
National Defense Academy (NDA)
Gori, Georgia Nov 2010 - Jun 2012
Rector
Ilia State University
Tbilisi, Other, Georgia Sep 2010 - Jun 2011
Faculty Member
Lecturer on MA and PhD Faculty
- Anthropology of Conflict and War (MA)
STanD - Institute for Strategy and Development
Tbilisi, Georgia Sep 2005 - Jul 2011
Managing Chair of Board
General Management of the Institute, incl. the following departments:
Business consultancy Unit
Economics and Agriculture Research Unit
Trainings Section
Renewable Energy Group
Good Governance Section
Information Technologies Group
GIPA - Georgian Institute of Public Affairs
Tbilisi, Georgia Sep 2005 - Jan 2011
Faculty Member
Lecturer on MA and BA courses:
Political and Military Crises and Management Strategies (MA)
International Relations (BA)
Russia and North Caucasus (MA)
GTUC - Georgian Trade Unions Confederation
Tbilisi, Georgia Oct 2005 - Oct 2007
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Chief Advisor to the President
Policy Formulation; Strategic Planning; Supervision and Monitoring;
Structural Reforms; Optimization Issues; Personnel Selection and Training;
Cooperation with International Experts, Foreign Diplomats and Representatives;
Participating in tripartite commission
Planning and Holding Negotiations with Individual and Business Unions Representatives;
Directing Publicity and Public Relations
Planning and direct participation in rallies and policy debates
Some highlights of the accomplishments:
Drafted and launched implementation of the Promoting Trade Union Culture, Program for
Georgia this was an extensive three-phase program, implying fundamental structural and
institutional reforms within the GTUC and its member federations, as well as special educational
and training programs; overall new philosophy for the Georgian Trades Unions implying the
departure from the service-oriented federations; information policies including specific projects like
the newspaper and the interactive website, as well as new information management system; etc.
Elaborated new statistics module for all (27) Trades Unions Federations, supervised data
collection and processing
Planned and supervised implementation of the series of Train the Trainer seminars;
prepared training modules for the future trainings
Contributed much in establishing new-level relations with International Confederation of Free
Trades Unions (ICFTU); European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC); International Labor
Organization (ILO); German Confederation of Trades Unions (DGB); International Falcon
Movement; and number of other international partner organizations
. Was principal expert on European Integration and EU policies and specifically on ENP
(participated in expert group on ENP Monitoring, supported by OSI and FES); later, supervised the
work of expert group as GTUC nominee.
Parliament of Georgia
Tbilisi, Georgia May 2002 - Dec 2003
Chief of Staff
Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Security
Supervision of proceedings in the six national power agencies
Working on defense/security reforms
Budgetary supervision/ formulation of the so called PPBES budget
Coordination with the Chairmen of the Committee
Coordination with the chief of the Parliamentary Staff
Coordination with respective government bodies
Liaison with State officials/international representatives
Some highlights of the accomplishments:
Received an official letter of appreciation from the Parliament s Spokesperson for the
achievements in reforming the security system of Georgia
Drafted the new bill on National Defence System and Military Service of Georgia
. Prepared the comprehensive document on corruption issues in the national defence system of
Georgia
Ministry of Defence
Tbilisi, Georgia May 1998 - Jun 1999
CIS and Eastern Europe Direction
Department of Treaties and Law
Annual plans of military cooperation
Speech-writing
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Assisting ministerial assessment works
Drafting treaties
Managing correspondence
Assisting the deputy-minister
Georgian Armed Forces
Tbilisi, Georgia Oct 2000 - Apr 2002
Head of Department
Department on Defence Policy at J5
Strategic documents
Development Plans
. Cooperation with international advisors
Education
Ilia State University
Tbilisi, Georgia Sep 2010 - Present
PhD, Identity Studies
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CA, United States 2003 - 2005
MS, Defense Analysis, National Security Affairs
Diploma Dual Degree (Post. Grad)
MS, Defence Analysis (National Security Affairs)
University of Patras
Patras, Greece 1996 - 1997
Degree Certificate, Linguistics
Certificate
Modern Greek Philology
GFSIS - Georgian Foundation for
Strategic and International Studies
Tbilisi, Georgia 2001 - 2002
Certificate of Achievement, High Courses of Public Poliicy
In cooperation with RAND Corporation
Tbilisi State University
Tbilisi, Georgia 1991 - 1996
MA, Classical Philology
Diploma
Graduate Degree (MA equivalent) in Classical and Georgian Philology
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High School # 24
Tbilisi, Georgia Sep 1980 - Jul 1991
Diploma
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