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Athanasios Kipouros

Thanasi is currently an M.A. candidate in European, Russian, and Eurasian Affairs at the University of Toronto. He holds a B.A. in Political Science, also from the University of Toronto, and has previously worked as a research assistant at the Hellenic Institute for European and Foreign Policy. Currently, his work focuses on infrastructure development in the Balkans and the Caucasus. Specifically, he is spending the second year of his Master’s program examining the future outlook and complications of mass transportation and rail infrastructure development in the regions.

Annika Kastetter

Annika holds a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations from Colorado College. She has worked on grassroots-level development and humanitarian aid projects in India and Jordan, and obtained domestic policy experience with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, where she served as an intern in the Office of International Labor Affairs. After completing her undergraduate degree in May 2017, Annika served as an intern for UNDP Georgia’s Governance Reform Fund project.

David Mzikyan

David Mzikyan holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Business Administration from Tbilisi State University and a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratization from the Eastern Partnership Regional Programme. Prior to joining the CRRC’s Junior Fellowship Program, David was involved in various projects in the private and non-governmental sectors. His research interests relate to political transformation in the South Caucasus following the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Nino Zubashvili

Nino holds an MA from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in Political Science and a BA from Ilia State University in European Studies. She studied at Warsaw University as an exchange student. Before joining the CRRC Junior Fellowship Program, Nino was involved in the projects, Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development (OECD) and the UNDP’s Media Monitoring (2014) project at CRRC. She was also a research intern at the Center for Social Sciences and has done internships at Civil Society Institute and the Parliament of Georgia. Her research interests include issues related to social and political developments in Georgia, civil consciousness and social capital, human rights, human security, and conflict.

Mari Mekhrishvili

Mari Mekhrishvili holds a BA in business administration from Østfold University College, where she spent the final year of her bachelor’s studies after completing three years of study at Tbilisi State University, majoring in Economics. Before joining the CRRC’s Junior Fellowship Program, she worked as an assistant researcher at GeoWel Research, where she was involved in conducting desk research and processing interviews on a range of economic and social issues. Her research interests relate to economic and social development with a focus on minority issues.

Mariam Londaridze

Mariam Londaridze earned a BA in Economics with a minor in Business Administration from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in 2014. Before joining CRRC as a Junior Fellow, she regularly contributed to the biweekly newsletters reviewing key economic processes in Georgia at Policy and Management Consulting Group (PMCG). In addition, she was involved in the marketing research at a private IT distributor company. Her research interests are mainly related to economic and social issues.

Maia Komakhidze

Maya graduated from Tbilisi State University with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations. In 2009, she took part in an exchange program to study at Creekside High School in the USA, and in 2013, she won a scholarship to study in the Czech Republic at Charles University in Prague. Prior to joining the CRRC team as a Junior Fellow, Maya worked at FactCheck Georgia as a project assistant and grants officer. Her research interests include public policy in developing countries, social and political transformations in post-soviet countries, civic engagement, and international institutions and global governance.

Tamar Gzirishvili

Tamar has a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Clark University and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Administration at Tbilisi State University and the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. As a part of her BA curriculum, she spent a semester studying Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University. Prior to joining CRRC as a Junior Fellow, Tamar worked as a researcher at Transparency International Georgia, where her main projects included National Integrity System assessment and Open Budget Survey. Her research interests include conflict transformation, identity issues, and nationalism studies.