Update: I left my UN career, moved to Cambridge MA & became a grad student in Harvard… Not an easy transition from being an UN diplomat to becoming a student again - not able to host anymore 😌, as I’m super busy…

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Leading an Environmental Health Team at the UN 🇺🇳 & based in Beijing 🇨🇳 until July 2024 and then moving to the U.S.

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Love hiking, mountain biking, rafting, shooting, skiing, other adrenaline generating activities as well as deep conversation about life, history & philosophy

I like to learn about different cultures, traditions, religions and view points.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meeting people outside my own circle

Interests

• traveling
• hiking
• boxing
• rock climbing
• soccer
• rafting

Music, Movies, and Books

Literature: Fiction
Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince
Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Orwell - 1984
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
ვაჟა-ფშაველა - ალუდა ქეთელაური
Достоевский - Преступление и наказание
Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee

Literature: Non-Fiction
Immanuel Kant - The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
John Rawls - A Theory of Justice
Jeremy Bentham and John Steward Mill on Utilitarianism
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan

Music
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, Linkin Park, Hans Zimmer, Mozart, Pavarotti, Archive, Placebo, National, Editors, London Grammer, Metallica, Daft Punk, Loudspeakers, ZAZ, Animal Kingdom, Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, Ramin Djawadi, etc.

Movies/TV Shows
Westworld, Game of Thrones, Batman the Dark Knight Trilogy, Wolf of Wall Street, Matrix, Cloud Atlas, Blade Runner, Counterpart, House of Cards, The Orville, Chernobyl, Dead Poets Society, Altered Carbon, etc.

Open to suggestions, please feel free to share :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 2016, I gave up an offer from Oxford University, returned to Georgia (my homeland) and worked on a project I deeply cared about. My project helped Georgia reduce population prevalence of exposure to pollutants, it is now being scaled up in over 20 countries by UN agencies, host governments and other global partners

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach boxing...

I am open to learn yoga and mediation as well as to improve my Mandarin Chinese

What I Can Share with Hosts

I do not need host but would appreciate if you show me around.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Japan, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Scotland, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Estonia, Georgia, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States