Mariam Chikhladze

Mariam Chikhladze is a Legislative and Oversight Advisor in the USAID National Governance Program. Within the Program, she provides day-to-day support to activities under Objective 2 designed to increase the effectiveness and independence of oversight institutions.

Chikhladze also plays a key role in developing and updating rolling political economy analysis to identify evolving convergence and divergence between and among different actors, pinpointing emerging windows of opportunity and detecting potential Georgian-led champions of change.

She is a well-established professional with over 10 years of experience in supporting democratic political institutions and promoting good governance.

Before joining the Program, she served under UNDP’s Parliamentary Support Project as an Institutional Development Specialist, where she worked closely with the parliamentary leadership, committees, and individual MPs to execute their constitutional mandate more effectively.

After being awarded the Fulbright Foreign Students Scholarship, Chikhladze graduated from the Bush School of Public Service and Government, Texas A&M University with a master’s degree in Public Policy Analysis.

She also completed the Edmund Muskie Professional Fellowship at the Center for the Future of the Liberal Society at Hudson Institute, Washington DC. Today, she teaches MA and BA courses at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA).