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Nona Mamulashvili is a fellow with MEI’s Frontier Europe Initiative. She currently leads the Caucasus Economic Policy Institute, a think tank promoting structural change and institutional development through policy research and advocacy in the Caucasus. Nona is the President of the Georgian Swiss Business Association and a Vice President at the Union of Business Women in Georgia. Previously, she worked as the Regional Director for Pfizer covering Caucasus and Central Asian countries. Nona also has extensive experience working in the public sector; she served as the Senior Advisor to the Analytical Group of President of Georgia between 2005-2007, and later as a political analyst at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.
Nona earned her BA in Business Administration from the International Black Sea University (Georgia), MA in Diplomatic Studies from the University of Westminster (London/UK), and PhD in International Relations from University of Sorbonne (France).
Black Sea economies poised to take advantage of a post-pandemic climate
In recent years, the Black Sea has featured high on the radar for US companies looking for alternative locations to do business – in part due to Black Sea countries’ success in creating a favorable business climate and offering flexibility as an adaptable production base. This trend has been exacerbated by global developments such as the US-China trade war and most notably, COVID-19.
