Speakers

Ekaterine Mikabadze has been the Deputy-Governor of the National Bank of
Georgia (NBG) since November 2023 and as First Deputy Governor since February
10, 2025. She is a member of the Board of the National Bank of Georgia from July
2021. Her main responsibilities are Monetary Policy design and implementation,
Macroeconomic Research, Financial and External Sector Statistics, Capital Market
Supervision. She started working for the NBG in 2009 as a Chief Economist of
Macroeconomic and Statistics Department. In 2016 she held position of Acting Head
of Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Policy Planning Department of Ministry of
Finance of Georgia. In 2018-2021 she served as a Deputy Minister and then the First
Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.
Ms. Ekaterine Mikabadze graduated with bachelor’s degree in Information Science
and Management Systems from Technical University of Georgia (1995); she is a
graduate of Tokyo International University, Japan in 2008 with Master’s Degree in
Economics.
Since 2011 to present she is a lecturer at the School of Business Management and
Economics, University of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia).