Ana Mikautadze has gained BA degree in International Relations at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. In 2016, she gained Master Degree in Public Administration at Ilia State University. Since 2015 she has been working at Ilia State University and has held different positions in University based Public Policy Research and Training Centre, Development office and Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For the time being, she works as an assistant to the Dean at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. At the same time she coordinates different summer schools and at the same time she is engaged in several EU funded projects as an administrative staff.
During her studies, she participated in a number of local and international conferences, workshops and trainings in the field of social and humanitarian sciences. Currently Ana is studying on certificate program “Hunting Corruption” developed by Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) in cooperation with ISU and OSF. Within this programme, she works on different kinds of research papers, policy documents, articles and etc.
In December, 2014 Ana engaged Book Translation Program, fulfilled by ISU and funded through U.S. embassy in Tbilisi. She is one of the authors of Georgian translations of “America’s Foreign Policy” by Bruce Jentleson, “Political Order and Political Decay: From Prehumen times to French Revolution” and “Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy” by Francis Fukuyama, “International Relations” by Joshua Goldstein and different learning materials in the field of Political Sciences.
His scientific interests include following:
- Public Policy Analysis;
- Corruption studies;
- Foreign Policy of Post-Soviet countries;
- Security