Tamar Karosanidze

Tamar Karosanidze is the Deputy Chief of Party of the largest USAID-funded civic engagement program administered by the East West Management Institute (EWMI). The program is titled Georgia Policy, Advocacy and Civil Society Support Program (G-PAC). Before joining the EWMI, Tamar was the Executive Director of the Georgian, anti-corruption non-governmental organization Transparency International (TI) Georgia. She led the organization during 2004-2010. Prior to that she was the Civic Program Coordinator at the National Democratic Institute (NDI) Georgia office. She was responsible for planning and managing the NDI's civic program and assisting its local partner organization International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), the largest election monitoring organization in Georgia. Tamar has also worked as a journalist at two national newspapers covering local and international political developments.

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Levan Tsutskiridze
 
Levan Tsutskiridze is a specialist in international relations with a focus on strategic and security studies. Mr. Tsutskiridze is the founder of the Association for International Relations, a professional association of educators and institutions specializing in international relations. He completed his B.A. in International Relations at Tbilisi State University and his M.A. at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Tsutskiridze worked in the research, education, public service reform and democratic development sectors at the OSCE, Open Society Foundation and the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.. Currently, Mr. Tsutskiridze serves as the Representative of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) in Georgia. NIMD works to support Georgia’s transition to mature democracy by supporting key legislative reforms, political party development and democracy education.