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Ketevan Tsikhelashvili
Ketevan Tsikhelashvili is the founder and director of the European Initiative of Liberal Academy Tbilisi (EI LAT), the new think tank with a pro-European vision with capacity building and research components spanning Georgia and wider region. For the past few years she has worked as analyst of European Stability Initiative (ESI) in Georgia. She holds MA in International Relations and European Studies (CEU, Budapest, Hungary) and works now towards her PhD in international relations. She lectures at the Ilia University on “The EU as a Global Actor” and “The Foreign Policy of the EU». Also, she is a freelance consultant to Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) in Georgia.
Previously she has worked as a special assistant to the State Minister on Conflict Resolution of Georgia and the project manager at Tbilisi-based International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN). Ketevan was involved with several international organizations in Europe such as European Center on Minority Issues (ECMI, Flensburg, Germany) as a visiting researcher, Center for OSCE research, University of Hamburg (CORE, Hamburg, Germany) as a research fellow, Transitions Online editorial (TOL, Prague, Czech Republic) as editorial assistant and Parliamentary Assembly of NATO (Brussels, Belgium) as a research associate. She writes regularly about Georgian affairs and has contributed to Palgrave and Macmillan editions.
