James Appathurai is a
Canadian diplomat and academic. He is the current
NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, a position he was appointed to in September 2021.
Appathurai has worked for NATO since 1998 and was its spokesperson from 2004 to 2010.
From December 2010 until April 2022, Appathurai was the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy.
During this time, he took on the role of Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia,
and held discussions with the government of
Georgia about potential NATO accession.
In 2021,
President of Georgia
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Salome Zurabishvili awarded Appathurai the
Order of the Golden Fleece
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for his contribution to
Georgia–NATO relations.
Appathurai was one of three NATO representatives at the
2024 Bilderberg Conference, an annual exclusive gathering of the European and North American political and business
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