Gregory Djerejian is currently based in New York City as Senior Vice-President and General Counsel of a financial services company that specializes in commercial real estate projects, hotel and resort developments, alternative investments, and company acquisitions. Mr. Djerejian also helps manage a philanthropic organization which has supported a number of projects in the Republic of Armenia including a loan program for small and medium sized enterprises undertaken in conjunction with the Washington DC based Eurasia Foundation.

Prior to this position, Mr. Djerejian worked as a corporate lawyer, also in New York City. Before this, Djerejian worked, in conjunction with the State Department, on the "train and equip" program for the Bosnian Federation military and with the International Rescue Committee in the former Yugoslavia from 1994-1996. Previously, Djerejian had worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and the U.S. Congress.

Djerejian has some expertise in regional issues (Caucasus, Former Soviet Union, Balkans, Western Europe, Middle East), as well as international law, media and public opinion, and international organizations (particularly NGOs).

He is fluent in French and conversant in Spanish and Russian. Djerejian was admitted as a term member to the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the New York State Bar. He serves as a director of a global macro hedge fund based in New York as well as a non-profit credit company disbursing development loans to SMEs in the Caucasus. He attended secondary school at Phillips Academy and subsequently received a B.S.F.S. from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1994 where he majored in European History and Diplomacy. He later received a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1999, attending law school at night while working in various foreign policy positions during the day.

Djerejian previously lived (at the inception of this weblog) in the Belgravia neighborhood in London which is home to many of the city's embassies, and inspires the name of this weblog.

He welcomes reader comments at belgraviadispatch@hotmail.com.