Nikoloz Rachveli, Composer, Conductor
Nikoloz Rachveli is Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra, Laureate of the Rustaveli Premium and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF Georgia. Able to unite role of composer, conductor and solo performer, Rachveli’s concerts are always distinguished by this impressive touch.
Rachveli’s music has been performed in concert halls around the world, and he has performed with some of the most-renowned names from Georgia and around the world.
In 2020 Deutsche Grammophon released Rachveli’s orchestral collaboration with virtuoso Georgian-German violinist Lisa Batiashvili’s new album, entitled ‘City Lights’. The Album was recorded in Berlin by Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester and in Tbilisi by the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra, and featuring special guest artists Katie Melua, Till Bronner, Milosh and Maximilian Hornung. In 2022 the additional single with Nikoloz Rachveli’s Symphonic Khorumi was released. The European premiere of the Album is planned on May 14th, 2023 in Berlin.
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Rachveli is an initiator of historic reform in Georgia, the result of which is a right awarded to the musicians of the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra to choose their Creative Directors. He is also the first elected Music Director and Principal Conductor in Georgia.
Ekaterina Togonidze, Writer
Between 1999-2009 Ekaterina Togonidze was the presenter of the information program “Moambe”, and later “Alioni” by the Georgian Public Broadcaster. Her writings have been published in Georgian and foreign periodicals since 2011. She has published seven books, has won several literary awards, including the Saba prize (2012).
Her stories have been published in various literary anthologies, and her texts have been translated into English, Czech, Russian, Abkhaz and German languages. The Austrian publishing house “SEPTIME” published her novel “Asynchrony” in 2017 and “Three Stories” in 2021.
In 2014-2020, Ekaterina headed the Marketing Department of the Georgian-American University.
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During the same period, she worked on the disability issues and was a member of the advisory board of the Public Defender. She delivers lectures on the issues of media.
Nino Zambakhidze, Chairwoman of Georgian Farmers’ Association
Nino Zambakhidze is a founder of Georgian Farmers Association, uniting 5,000 member farmers, she also manages private companies, non-governmental organizations, innovative startups, and digital platforms. In 2020 she was awarded a national business-prize “Mercury 2011” where she was named “Woman Entrepreneur of the Year”. Zambakhidze was the first woman chosen as a coordinator of “Invest in Future” organization created in 2012 under the patronage of Hilary Clinton.
In 2017 Zambakhidze was nominated as a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. She holds a Master’s Degree with distinction in Business Administration from Grenoble Graduate School.
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In 2016 she was named as Entrepreneur of the Year by Grenoble Graduate School of Business. Zambakhidze holds certificates in Public Policy from Stanford University Leadership Academy, Transformational Leadership from Oxford University among others.
Margarita Antidze, Journalist
Margarita Antidze has been reporting on all aspects of political and economic life in Georgia and the South Caucasus region since 1988, from general and political news through business and economic as well as news feature stories. She has extensive experience of working in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and other ex-Soviet republics, including coverage of conflicts, riots, major political events, as well as conferences, visits and summits. She has interviewed key policy makers in different fields.
Antidze was one of the leaders of the Reuters team winning Political & General News Story of the Year in 2008 for coverage of the August War in Georgia. Since 2021, she has been teaching journalism and conducting training, and in January 2023 she was appointed the editor-in-chief of Project 64.
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Mebo Nutsubidze, Musician, TV Presenter
Mebo Nutsubidze is Co-Founder and CEO of Heima Productions, one of the biggest music production studios in Georgia. From 2018, Nutsubidze has hosted TV show about music, called “Acoustics”. He is well known for different music projects, such as: The BearFox, The Rylans and Mebo Renard. In 2022, Nutsubidze co-produced the musical “I will swim across the Sea”, created for the Vaso Abashidze State New Theatre, directed by David Doiashvili (DOI).
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Beqa Adamashvili, Copywriter, Screenwriter
Beqa Adamashvili graduated from the Media School of the Caucasus University in 2011. He published two books – “Bestseller” (2014) and “Everybody Dies in this Novel” (2018) – the first book by a Georgian author to win the EUPL (European Union Literary Prize) award in 2019. Adamashvili is also the winner of the Autumn Legend literary competition, his books have been translated into more than ten languages. In 2016-2021, he worked at Leavingstone Creative Agency, first as a copywriter and then as a creative director. He also delivers lectures under the program of creative writing of the Caucasus University.
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Levan Ghambashidze, Philosopher, Teacher
In 2005 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy & Social Sciences of Tbilisi Ilia Chavchavadze State University for Foreign Languages & Culture. In 2007 he travelled to Europe under the Erasmus Mundus Masters program, where he studied for two years at the three universities (Luxembourg, Prague, Bochum) and received a Master’s degree. Since 2009 he has been teaching at Ilya State University, the Tbilisi Academy of Arts & the Conservatory, and is engaged in public activities. Since 2016, she has been teaching history and philosophy at the Guivy Zaldastanishvili American Academy.
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Giorgi Kadagidze, Finance Professional
In 2001, Giorgi Kadagidze received a dual degree of BBA from the Tbilisi European School of Management and Preston University. In 2005 graduated from the School of Public Administration of the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs with a Master’s degree and in 2014 completed the Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development in Boston (USA).
In 2009 – 2016, he was the Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Georgia and its President.
Under Giorgi’s leadership the National Bank of Georgia has won various awards for its IT infrastructure. In 2014, Giorgi was named the Central Banker of the Year (Europe) by The Banker Magazine.
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He gives lectures in the higher educational institutions of Georgia and Europe. He is also the managing partner of “Nexus Asset Management”.
Rati Amaglobeli, Poet
In 2000 Rati Amaglobeli graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Since 1994, his poems have been periodically published both in Georgian and foreign languages. He was the editor of the Hot Chocolate magazine (2010-2011). In 2011-2015 was the president of PEN Georgia.
Amaglobeli is an author of five poetry collections.
He is the founder of the Saba Literary Award together with the TBC Bank, and an invited lecturer at Ilia State University.
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Ilo Beroshvili, TV Presenter
Ilo Beroshvili is a Philologist by profession. His football career, which began in 2000 when he joined VIT Georgia, has an important place in his biography.
“The man who talks all the time” is how Ilo Beroshvili became known to the public. This project was a product of cooperation with Geocell. Since 2014, he was the host of the Ilo Beroshvili Show on the Imedi TV. He played a memorable character in the Georgian TV series “My Wife’s Girlfriends”. He worked for the “Rustavi 2”. Currently, employed on “Mtavari Channel”, where he hosted the “Main Boys Show” and now he hosts the “Ilo Beroshvili Show”.
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Rusudan Petviashvili, Artist
Rusudan’s Petviashvili held her first personal exhibition at the age of six. Since then, she has held personal exhibitions around the world, including in Paris, London, Berlin, Geneva, Vienna, Budapest, etc. Many books have been published featuring Rusudan’s illustrations, among them “National Fairy Tales of Georgia” and the French edition of “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin”. Petviashvili is listed in Cambridge Biographical Centre’s book “2000 Famous Persons of XX Century”. In WHAT YEAR a gallery of Petviashvili’s art was opened in Tbilisi. She has also collaborated with luxury the German ceramics and tableware brand Villeroy & Boch and in 2020 the luxury Swiss watch brand Jaquet Droz. Petviashvili’s paintings are exhibited in various private collections around the world, including those of several world leaders.
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Anna Godabrelidze, Winemaker
Since 2007, Anna Godabrelidze has been leading the State Tasting Commission, and since 2013, she has headed the Viticulture & Winemaking program at the Georgian Agrarian University. In 2009, she created her own wine school “Vinemo”. Godabrelidze is co-author of the program “Everything about wine with Anna Godabrelidze”. From 2016 to 2022, she served as the Vice President of the High Spirits Commission of the International Organization of Vine & Wine (OIV). She has co-authored several books, and has worked in various wine companies in Burgundy and Bordeaux. She studied at the Montesquieu University of Bordeaux at Master 2 – Law, Economics and Management in the field of Viticulture & Winery.
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