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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.

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. 

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.

Edisher Baghaturia holds a BA in International Relations from Tbilisi State University and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Diplomacy and International Politics at the same university. Before becoming a Junior Fellow at CRRC, Edisher was involved in a media monitoring project at Transparency International - Georgia. He has also worked as a researcher/interviewer for the Darmstadt University project “EU Democracy Promotion in South Caucasus and Central Asia.”

Edisher also completed a long-term analyst preparation program at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS). His fields of interest include foreign policy analysis and security issues. He is also interested in social and cultural geography.