From May 14-18, Pati Mamardashvili visited the Geisenheim University in Germany to attend seminars and give lectures to students. Pati’s visit was aimed at reinforcing cooperation between ISET’s Agricultural Economics Concentration and Geisenheim University.
Both teaching and research at Geisenheim Univerisity are practice-oriented and focus on viticulture, wine production, and wine business. During the visit, Pati had the pleasure to attend several seminars held by Peter Hayes – a well-known wine industry strategist and advisor. The talks addressed leadership in the wine industry, supply strategies, grower-buyer relationships, and a number of other topics.
On May 17, Norberto Pignatti, the head of the Energy and Environment Policy Research Center and professor at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University, was invited to discuss good and bad practices characterizing the Regulatory Impact Assessment exercises in its presentation “Conducting RIA in Georgia: an academic perspective”. Professor Pignatti, as an invited keynote speaker, spoke during the ECPRD workshop on the Assessment of the Impact of the Legislative Initiatives on the State Finances and Regulation Impact Assessment, organized by the Staff of the Georgian Parliament’s Research Department and its Budget Office.