We are proud to announce that Maya Grigolia, an ISET alumna (class 2008) and senior researcher with the ISET Policy Institute, was offered a position of Research Director at Policy and Management Consulting Group (PMCG). In her new capacity, Maya will be working on project management, quality control, and communication issues.

ISET is proud to welcome Maria De Paola, a visiting professor working at the Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance at the University of Calabria in Italy. Currently an Associate Professor of Economics, Maria obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Rome.

WIN/Gallup-ის მიერ 2015 წელს ჩატარებული კვლევის თანახმად, ქართველთა 93% თავს რელიგიურად მიიჩნევს. მსოფლიოში მხოლოდ ერთ ქვეყანას, ტაილანდს, აქვს უფრო მაღალი მაჩვენებელი, სადაც ეს რიცხვი 94%-ს აღწევს. საქართველოს მსგავსი მაჩვენებელი გვხვდება მხოლოდ სომხეთში, ბანგლადეშსა და მაროკოში. მსოფლიოს სხვა ქვეყნები შედარებით ნაკლებად არიან მოცულნი რელიგიით.

The Inter-Conference Symposium of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) entitled “Agricultural Transitions along the Silk Road” took place on April 4-7, 2016, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was organized by the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) and hosted by Kazakh National Agrarian University (KazNAU).

Held on April 8, this discussion was a part of the four-day anti-corruption program ISET organized for a large group of students and faculty from ISET’s partner university, the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen. The expert panel included Jacques Fleury, former CEO of Borjomi LLC and JSC Château Mukhrani; Mariam Dolidze, Senior Economist at World Bank Georgia; Archil Bakuradze, Chairman of Supervisory Board at JSC Crystal Georgia; Bruno Balvanera, Resident Representative of EBRD Georgia; Giorgi Oniani, Deputy Executive Director of Transparency International Georgia; and ISET President Eric Livny, who also moderated the discussion.