GG Forum 2020 — SPEAKERS
Executive Director
Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) Georgia
Mr. Giorgi Kldiashvili is a founding member and Executive Director of the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI). He has over nine years of experience working on openness and transparency issues in Georgia and internationally. He has been carrying out projects, studies, assessments, and trainings for different international organizations and foundations. Giorgi Kldiashvili is the author of a number of publications related to access to information, anti-corruption policy and good governance, accountability and transparency, e-Governance and e-Democracy, open data, civil service and public administration, media and the internet.
In addition to his work in applied policy research with IDFI, as a historian by speciality, he has academic credentials as a researcher, undertaking studies in American and Soviet Studies. He is a professional archive researcher, working in the history archives of Georgia and abroad for more than a decade. Giorgi holds graduate degrees in Contemporary History and worked as a professor of American Studies at the Institute of American Studies at Tbilisi State University.
Giorgi Kldiashvili is a CSO Steering Committee Member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP).