GFSIS regularly invites high level officials and visiting or locally based experts to share their experience with Georgian audiences.  Recent guest speakers include:

H.E. Mr. Mojtaba Damirchiloo. Ambassador of Islamic Republic of Iran to Georgia. "Iranian Foreign Policy in the Caucasus".

Mr. Gediminas Kirkilas. Prime Minister of Lithuania. "The Challenges and Opportunities of Integration Into Euro-Atlantic Institutions".

Mr. Peter Semneby. The EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus.  "EU and Georgia".

Mr. Urmas Paet. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. "Estonian-Georgian Relations".

Mr. Mile Komlen. Human Rights Lawyer. Canada. "Pluralism and National Identity: Canadian Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Human Rights in Georgia".

Ambassador David Smith. Director of the Georgian Security Analysis Center; Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. "The Outcome of U.S. Congressional Elections".

Mr. Lauri Almann. Permanent Undersecretary, Ministry of Defense of Estonia; Former member of International Security Advisory Board. "Georgia and NATO: The Last Mile".

Mr. Alick Andrews. Consultant from Canada. “Performance Evaluation in Public Service”.

Professor Louise Doswald-Beck. Professor of the Graduate Institute of International Studies and Director of the UCiHL in 2003.  "International Humanitarian Law".

Ms. Sylvia Lloyd Heal. MP.  "State and Law in EU".

Professor Andrea Bianchi.  Ph.D from University of Milan. “Enforcement of International Law Norms against Terrorism”.

Dr. Daniel Warner. Deputy to the Director of Graduate Institute of International Studies. "Democracy and the Future of South Caucasus".

Colonel James Howcraft. United States Marine Corps Chair. "NATO Accession Process: Lessons Learned in Two Previous  Waves of Enlargement". 

Ambassador  Przemyslaw Grudzinski. College of International and Security Studies. "Georgia's Road and Road Map to Nato: The Central European View".

Mr. Alex Brookling. Charge d'Affaires a.i. of the Australian Embassy in Russia. "Consultations with GFSIS Administration".

H.E. Vartan Oskanian.  Minister of Foreign Affairs Republic of Armenia. "Armenia and its Disposition Towards the Nations of the South Caucauses".

Mr. Pawel Zalewski. Member of Parliament of Poland, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. "Consultations with GFSIS Administration".  

Mr. Grant Thomas. Canada, PPKN project.  "Tthe NetCorps program".  

HE Vladimir Chkhikvishvili.  Ambassador of Russia to Georgia. "Russia-Georgia Relations".

Mr. Radoslav Sikorski. Defense Minister of Poland. "Consultations with GFSIS Administration". 

HE Mark Sofer. Deputy Director General for Central Europe and Eurasia, Foreign Ministry of Israel. "Middle East Problems and Their Settelment".

Mrs. Ene Ergma. Speaker of the Estonian Parliament. "Estonia's first experiences as a member of the European Union and NATO".

Mrs. Lolanta Darczewska. Deputy Director of the Centre for Eastern Studies (Warsaw, Poland).  "Security situation in the South Caucasus".

Mr. Richardas Degutis. Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to Georgia. "Lithuania and Georgia".

Mr. Matthew Bryza, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. "Special role that democracy promotion".

Mr. Arturas Paulauskas. Chairman of the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania. "Lithuanian experience in Relation to the Integartion into the EU".

Dr. Daniel Warner. Deputy Director of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. "Rainbow of the Revolutions".

Mr. David Holloway.Pofessor of political science and a member of Stanfords Institute for International Studies. "Competing spheres of influence of the United States, the European Union, and Russia".

Mr. Jaap De Hoop Scheffer. NATO Secretary General. "NATO and Georgia: Prospects for Partnership."

Mr. Stephan Minikes. U.S.  Ambassador to the OSCE. "OSCEs Role  in the Peacekeeping".

Hon. Kenneth Yalowitz. Former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia. "USA and Georgia Relationaship".

Imam Yahya Hendi. Muslim Chaplain at Georgetown University. "Muslim Community of America after September 11, 2002."

Dr. Keith Crane, Senior Economist, RAND Corporation.

Dr. Gail Lapidus, Senior Fellow Emerita, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.

Ms. Olga Oliker, Sr. International Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation.

Dr. Tonya Putnam, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University.

Mr. M. Rajaratnam, Founder of Information and Resource Center (Singapore); Member of the Advisory Board of the European Institute (New Delhi).

Dr. Daniel Warner. Deputy Director, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.

15 Feb 2006

Guests Speak at GFSIS Former US Assistant Secretary of Defense, Mira R. Ricardel, and former US Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs, Dr. Kim Holmes speak at GFSIS

23 Jan 2006

Mr. Mart Laar, Former Prime Minister of Estonia Lecture on Estonia's transition to democracy and free enterprise

10 Nov 2005

Prof. Raimundas Lopata, Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University Discussion with GFSIS Senior Fellows on developments in Georgia and Lithuania and prospects for further cooperation between the two countries.

31 Oct 2005

Lecture of Marietta S. Koenig UNOMIG Mediation in the Georgian - Abkhazian Conflict: Abkhazia's View

27 Oct 2005

Col. James Howcroft, USMC Chair of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies and former US Defense Attache in Georgia Lecture on recent political developments in Iraq.

07 Oct 2005

Ms. Ruth Richardson, Former Minister of Finance of New Zealand Lecture on Economic Reform.

16 Sep 2005

Hon. Murat Bilhan, Chairman of the Center for Strategic Research, Ministry of Foreign of Turkey Lecture on Turkish Foreign Policy.

12 Sep 2005

Dr. Natalie Sabanadze, Political Advisor, High Commissioner on National Minorities of OSCE Discussion With Journalists on Nationalism and Globalization.

30 Aug 2005

Hon. Robert E. Hunter, Senior Advisor, the RAND Corporation Lecture on Contemporary Geopolitical Trends and Realities.

18 Jul 2005

Bishop Malkhaz Songulashvili Lecture on Religious Nationalism in Georgia.