Salome Kandelaki is an Assistant Professor at New Vision University and Manager of the Project Management Office. She is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at Tbilisi State University and a visiting lecturer at Tbilisi State University and European University.

She holds Master’s degrees in Political Science (CEU, Budapest) and Public Administration (MPA, Speyer/TSU). Her research focuses on comparative politics, church–state relations, national resilience, Black Sea security, and democratization, with approximately 30 scholarly and analytical publications.

Salome also has extensive experience in project design and management; over the past eight years, she has led more than 20 international research and policy development projects and prepared over 60 competitive grant applications.