Mariam Lobjanidze joined ISET Policy Institute in September 2018, where she is currently a Practice Head of Agriculture and rural policy. She received her Master’s Degree in Economics (Summa cum Laude) from ISET. She has been actively involved in conducting Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIA) since 2019. Mariam was also involved in delivering RIA Training for Government Officials in Georgia. Since 2020, she has been actively working on elaborating gender impact assessments (GIA) methodology for Georgia, conducting GIA together with Georgian ministries, and delivering Gender Impact Assessment Trainings. Her research interests include: Labour Markets, Gender Economics and Social Issues, Social Policy, Energy Security, and Climate Change. 

Along with her research, Ms. Lobjanidze works as a teaching assistant at ISET, teaching Econometrics to second-year BA students. Between 2017 and 2019, she also worked as a teaching assistant in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Econometrics courses