Professor of Management at Grenoble School of Management, GEM (Grenoble, France) and Kutaisi International University, KIU (Kutaisi, Georgia), Distinguished Fellow of New Westminster College (Vancouver, British Columbia); Previously, Rector at Bank of Georgia University, founded by the Bank of Georgia, the most prominent regional market leader and among LSE listed premium 250 companies; Former  Dean of School of Economic and Business at Tbilisi State University; Dual PhD degree holder in Management from Caucasus University (Tbilisi, Georgia) and Georgia State University (Atlanta, Georgia, USA). Fifteen years of teaching and consultancy experience in the universities and private/public institutions at the local and international level in strategic and project management, decision making, leadership, management, entrepreneurship, business plan development.