AFS-USA and FLEX Alumnus Tornike Rizhvadze ’07 (Batumi, Georgia/ Paso Robles, CA) was elected as Chairman of the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara as of July 2018. Prior to this, Tornike was the Director of JSC, The Georgian Energy Development Fund. He is also an alumnus of the Global Village Program. More about Tornike can be found at: http://adjara.gov.ge/EngPage.aspx?pid=1417#.X0VKgchKjD5.
AFS-USA and YES alumnus Andani Kholinar 2006-07 (formerly Umar Mohammed) recently received his PhD. and was highlighted by the Embassy on the U.S. Embassy Ghana’s Facebook page. Read about the impact his exchange had on his graduate school experience here: https://www.yesprograms.org/stories/a-very-yes-doctorate