Deputy Director for Finance & PI
Prior to joining ISET, Bakari Baratashvili was an Assistant Professor at the American University of the Middle East in Kuwait where he spent 6 years and during this time he also occupied various team-leading positions, including Academic Operations, Accreditation and Compliance, and Academic Advising. Before that, Bakari worked as a Bank Supervisor at the National Bank of Georgia in 2012-2013 and as a Senior Specialist at the Ministry of Finance of Georgia in 2009-2012. During these years he completed various courses and training at IMF Institute and World Bank. Bakari also has taught economics, finance and statistics courses at TSU, Ilia Uni, Caucasus University, Black Sea University, and Eastern European University. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia. He also studied at Rice University, USA, and is an ISET class 2008 graduate.
