| Associate professor Chief specialist at Quality Assurance Agency Department of Economics Faculty of Economics and Business Tbilisi State University Tbilisi, Georgia e-mail: ia.natsvlishvili@tsu.ge ianat777@yahoo.com |
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During the spring of 2010 and 2011 Ia Natsvlishvili was a visiting research scholar at The George Washington University, affiliated with the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning, Department of Management, School of Business. Her stay in the USA was supported by the Faculty Development Fellowship Program, which is funded by the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation). Her mentor at The George Washington University was Professor Stuart A. Umpleby.
She has a PhD degree from the Tbilisi State University. Her interests include managerial economics, social policy, quality assurance, business management, educational administration and strategic decision-making. She is the coauthor of a report on national standards of business education within the context of the Bologna Process.