Tedo Sanikidze has 7+ years of experience in managerial positions, project management, coordination, research, and lecturing. He is a member of the GIPA academic council and an academic assistant in public administration.
He holds a Master’s degree in Management from Lund University (Sweden) and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs. He also has a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Georgia and completed the "Advanced Programme in EU Law and Economics" at the Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia).
Tedo has participated in many exchange programs and received several training scholarships, including the Swedish Institute Scholarship for Global Professionals.
Courses:
- Basics of Management;
- Principles of Public Administration and Public Administration System of Georgia;
- Entrepreneurship
Research:
- Sanikidze, T., & Starck, A., (2023), Current state of AI Adoption in Swedish Banks: Rationales, Challenges, and Lessons Learned, Lund University, Master’s thesis;
- Macharashvili, N., Sanikidze. T., Beridze, E., Begoidze, M., Chalauri, N., (2020), Political Independence of Civil Servants and the Role of Senior Civil Servants. Tbilisi: GIPA with the support of UNDP Georgia;
- Dolidze, N., Sanikidze, T., Beridze, E., Kurashvili, L. (2017). "Training and Professional Development of Civil Servants in the Public Sector of Georgia." Tbilisi: GIPA with the support of UNDP Georgia.
Projects:
- 2024-2025 - Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA), US Embassy in Georgia, project - "30+ Years of Western Partnership: Enhancing Youth Engagement and Civic Awareness of the Benefits of Georgia's Western Orientation" - Project Head;
- 2020-2021 - Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA), in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), project - "Resilience during COVID-19; Comparison of internally displaced persons with the local population" project at the - Financial manager.
Research Interests:
His research interests revolve around organizational change management, evidence-based decision-making and policy-making, building and managing high-performing teams, and public administration reform.
