George Tugushi is a human rights lawyer with a practical and theoretical experience in the field of human rights.

He graduated as a lawyer Tbilisi State University, Faculty of International Law and Relations in 1999. In 2001 he graduated from the Georgian-American Institute of Public Administration (GIPA) with an MA in Public Administration. In 2004 he graduated from the Lund University, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law with LL.M. in International Human Rights Law. As of January 2012 he is a Doctoral Student at the Faculty of Law of the Tbilisi State University.

George Tugushi served three consecutive mandates as the elected member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) in respect of Georgia, having first been elected to this seat in March 2005. Was the chairman of CPT’s Jurisprudence Working Group. George Tugushi is also the former member of the UN Committee against Torture (UNCAT), Vice-Cheirperson and Rapporteur on Reprisals of the Committee. He also served as the Human Rights Ombudsman of Georgia during 2009-2012 and Head of the National Preventive Mechanism formed under OPCAT. He was also the member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI). In addition he has served as an expert for the Council of Europe, European Union and UN on a number of occasions under individual assignments related to the establishment of the NPMs in Eastern Europe, analysis of the legislation related to the National Human Rights Institutions and NPMs, Elaboration of the National Human Rights Action Plans as well as supervision of their implementation. He has delivered trainings to the public officials, members of the civil society, members of the NPMs and Ombudsman Institutions in different parts of the world including Europe and Asia, more specifically Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo*, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Viet-Nam and Hong-Kong. His working record also includes positions in the OSCE, UNDP and various EU funded Projects implemented by the Austrian Company “Human Dynamics” as well as member of the Board of NGO “Georgian Democracy Initiative”. As of 2016 He is Member of Georgian Parliament and Vice-Char of the Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration.  Mr. Tugushi is lecturing international human rights law in the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs since 2005. Last but not the least George serves as a human rights consultant for various private Law Companies mostly in the UK, such as Charles Douglas Solicitors, Saunders Solicitors, Maxim Law Solicitors, Sonn Macmillan Walker, Russell and Cooke Solicitors, Dalton Holmes Gray Solicitors, Lansbury Worthington Solicitors.

*All references to Kosovo, whether the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United Nation's Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.