Associate Professor in Gender Studies
Ketevan Chkheidze holds an MA degree from Central European University (2006) and a Ph.D. from Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (2014); she also was a visiting fellow at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey (2011).
Ketevan has worked with a number of international organizations and projects, and she has more than 10 years of consultancy experience on gender equality, including in South Caucasus and Central Asia. As an invited lecturer, she has a teaching experience for graduate and undergraduate programs at the Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (2014-2022). Her research interests include women in development processes, women and economic development, women’s entrepreneurship, private sector initiatives for promoting gender equality, gender equality policy, and related issues.
Publications
● Ketevan Chkheidze, Neeti Katoch, David Urbaneja-Furelos. 2021. Four Ways to Advance Equality for Women in the Workplace, Asian Development Bank
● Chkheidze K. and Kharazishvili M. 2019. Better Gender Design for Better Water Resource Management: The Georgia Urban Services Improvement Investment Program, in Gender in Infrastructure: Lessons from Central and West Asia, ADB
● Chkheidze K. 2017. Women’s Political Participation in Post-Soviet Georgia, in Gender in Georgia, Berghahn Publishing, edited by Alisse Waterstone and Maia Barkaia
● Chkheidze K. 2017. Women’s Political Participation in Georgia since 1990ies, Academic journal Georgian Woman’s Voice (ხმა ქართველი ქალისა), 1-2017, თსუ
● Chkheidze K. 2010. Gender Equality Politics in Georgia, Caucasus Analytical Digest, No 21, Heinrich Boell Foundation
● Aladashvili I., Chkheidze K. 2009. Review of Gender Equality Policy and Monitoring Implementation of Gender Equality Action Plan in Georgia, UNFPA