Nino Dolidze is the Executive Director of International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), a key election watchdog in Georgia. Before joining ISFED, she worked at the International Republican Institute (IRI) for eight years, leading the Election Program, Developing Multi-party Democracy and Political Empowerment of Women. She has participated in more than 20 domestic and international election observation missions, including OSCE/ODIHR, IRI, NDI, and ENEMO, in Georgia and abroad. She holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from University of Georgia; and Bachelor’s degree in History of Diplomacy and International Relations from Tbilisi State University. She is an alumna of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University.

Nanuka Kruashvili is a Director of the Democratic Institutions Support Program at the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association and an Oxford Reporter on International Law at Oxford University Press in two of its modules: International Law in Domestic Courts and International Human Rights Law module where she contributes, and authors briefs and analysis of a case-law prominent in the field of international law and human rights. Additionally, she is an invited lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Georgia.
Ms Kruashvili is a public international law lawyer specializing in transitional justice, rule of law, democratization and human rights. She holds three degrees, an LL.B (2012-2017) and LL.M degrees (2017-2019) in Public International Law from Tbilisi State University and an Advanced Master’s degree in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Rule of Law from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (2019-2020). In addition, in 2022 she successfully completed the Intensive Program in European Law and Economy at Riga Graduate School of Law. She is actively involved in various academic programs and projects in the field of transitional justice, international law and human rights.

Mikheil Benidze is a Programs Director at Georgia’s European Orbit and currently leads the methodology working group for the My Vote election observation mission within the My Vote for the EU coalition. Mikheil has over a decade of experience of working on promoting democracy, electoral integrity, human rights, and tackling disinformation. Most recently, he was the Chief of Party of USAID’s Information Integrity Program, an counter-disinformation activity in Georgia. Mikheil was the Executive Director of International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) from 2016 to 2020 and also briefly served as the Secretary General of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO) in 2016-17. Mikheil has managed local and international election observation missions, led policy advocacy work and spearheaded development and implementation of ISFED’s pioneering methodology for social media monitoring in the context of elections.