Tedo Japaridze is a Georgian diplomat, born in Tbilisi. He worked at the Institute for the USA and Canada Studies of the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences from 1974-89. He served as Georgia's deputy foreign minister in August 1991; deputy chair of the National Security Council from November 1992-June 1994; as ambassador to the United States from July 1994-March 2002; and (after the "rose revolution") as foreign minister from November 2003-March 2004