I am a political economist with expertise in economic development, central banking, and Georgia’s financial history. I have a Phd in social and economic sciences from the University of Kassel.
I am an associate professor at the Georgian Institute for Public Affairs (GIPA) and a CERGE-EI Foundation teaching fellow. I am also a researcher at the Institute for Social and Cultural Research, Ilia State University (Georgia). I am currently a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Davis Center, Harvard University.
In the last five years I did research at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (ZZF), in the network Legacies of Communism. I was also a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Trinity College, Sciences Po, and the University of Vienna.
My book Unravelling Dollarization Persistence: the case of Georgia was published by Routledge in 2023.