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Our Staff

International Office

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Nino Japaridze
President
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Andrea Pluhar
Senior Director of Operations
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  • Former Business Manager for Provincetown Community Compact

  • Former House Manager and volunteer coordinator for Payomet Performing Arts Center, Truro, MA

  • Founding member of Wellfleet Porchfest and Outermost Contra

  • BFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University

Georgian Office

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Lena Kiladze, PhD
Executive Director
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  • Executive Director in Georgia since 2002

  • Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture since 1998

  • Fulbright Scholarship to Yale School of Architecture

  • PhD in Theory and History of Architecture from the Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi

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Kate Kalandarashvili
Director of Operations
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  • AFG Project Coordinator/Director of Operations in Georgia since 2015

  • RTA Assistant at European Union’s ENPI Program: Twinning Project

  • Graduate of London Academy of Media, Film and Television, Film School

  • Faculty of Western European Languages and Literature at Tbilisi State University 

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