ISET President Eric Livny and head of the Private Sector Development Policy Center Sophiko Skhirtladze, held a training session for the staffers of the European Integration, Economic Affairs and other Committees of the Georgian Parliament regarding the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the European Union.
The objective of the training was to present and discuss key messages from the policy paper “DCFTA – Risks and Opportunities for Georgia” prepared by ISET-PI and published by the Open Society Georgia Foundation within the project “Raising support and enhancing understanding of the Europeanization process in Georgia: information and communication campaign on EU-Georgia Association Agreement, including DCFTA”. The project was supported by the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through its Official Development Assistance Policy.
ISET is pleased to welcome its new employee Gigla Mikautadze in the capacity of Deputy Head of the Private Sector Development Research Centre. His responsibilities include leading the centre in studying and formulating effective policy options for strengthening the private sector and promoting market competitiveness. In addition, he will work to promote the engagement of the private sector in policy discussions, as well as assist the research centre in its goal to increase the capacity of the private and the public sector in development.
Mr. Mikautadze is a director and co-founder of the Taxpayers Union of Georgia and a columnist at Forbes Georgia. He is also pursuing his Ph.D. at the Free University of Georgia. He holds a Master’s degree in Economic and Social Studies from University of Trier, Germany (2010), and his most recent post was at the Ministry of Agriculture of Georgia, where he was involved as a consultant in several projects of PMCG and TBSC Consulting.