Field of research: Agricultural Economics
Davit Zhorzholiani
Davit Zhorzholiani holds a Master’s degree in economics from ISET (2017). He earned a BA in Economics from Tbilisi State University (2014).
He has worked as a Researcher at the Agricultural Policy Research Center at ISET (International School of Economics at TSU) Policy Institute specializing in agriculture.
*Last updated April 2021
Phatima Mamardashvili
Phatima Mamardashvili is an Associate Professor at the East European University Georgia. She has a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Skilled in Sustainable Development, Multiple Project Coordination, English, Russian, and Teamwork. She has served as an Assistant Professor at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University and as the Head of the Agricultural Policy Research Center (APRC) at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET PI).
Phatima Mamardashvili received her Dr.Sc. degree from ETH Zurich for the dissertation entitled Measuring economic and environmental performance of Swiss dairy farms using stochastic frontier analysis. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from the Georgian State Agricultural University (2005) and her M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Sciences with a major in Food and Resource Economics from ETH Zurich.
Her research and teaching interests include Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, and Econometrics.
*Last updated April 2021
Salome Deisadze
Salome Deisadze is a Senior Researcher at the Agricultural and Rural Policy Research Center at ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI). Along with other research projects, she is involved in Agri Review publishing and writes monthly highlights on food price changes in local and international markets. Her research interests lie broadly in the area of agricultural economics and rural development.
Currently, Salome Deisadze is a Ph.D. candidate at the Tbilisi State University. In 2016, she received a Master’s degree in Economics at ISET, and that same year successfully completed the Course for Graduate Teaching Fellows in Teaching principles and Practices for Economics at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE) of Charles University in Prague. Currently, she is a visiting lecturer in Elements of Practical Mathematics at Ilia State University.
(Last updated November 2022)
Lasha Labadze
Lasha Labadze is an Assistant Professor at the American University of the Middle East (AUM). He has worked as an Executive Director at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI), where he was responsible for a team of researchers, performing a variety of research, training and teaching functions.
Lasha Labadze studied at Tbilisi State University’s (TSU) Department of Mathematics. Lasha holds a Master’s degree in economics from ISET and PhD degree from Tbilisi State University. At ISET-PI he was coordinating a number of projects including the Khachapuri Index and Consumer Confidence Index.
*Last updated April 2021