Biography

Ghia Nodia is a professor of politics at Ilia Chavchavadze State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is also the founder and chairman of the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD), an independent public policy think tank in Tbilisi, Georgia. In February–December 2008, he served as the minister for education and science of Georgia. His more recent publications include “Democracy’s Inevitable Elites“, Journal of Democracy, January 2020, and „The New Georgia: Politics, Economy and Society“, in: Galina M. Yemelianova and Laurence Broers (Eds), Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus (Oxon, New York: Routledge, 2020), 56; “The Story of Two Triangles: Georgia’s Russia Policies”, in: Tracey German, Stephen F. Jones and Kornely Kakachia (eds), Georgia’s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Challenges for a small state (London, Etc.: I.B.Tauris, 2022).