Get to know the people behind INADRAna Khurtsidze

Ana Khurtsidze is lawyer, trainer and mediator based in Georgia. She is the Dean of the Law School at The University of Georgia. Ana has been working in education field and have taught at several universities since 2003. She has been delivering trainings with 15 years of experience. Her area of academic research is commercial mediation. She has been and still is involved in legal and judicial reforms of civil and commercial law and in improvement the organizational culture and the ways of responding to grievances in offices. Ana is state accredited mediator for collective labor disputes in the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia and has accreditation trainings in ADR expertise as certified trainer of Mediators Association of Georgia. She is the member of Global Mediator Panel of UN. Since 2021 Ana is the Vice President International Education of INADR -International Academy of Dispute Resolution. She participates regularly in International Competitions both as a professional judge and as a coach representing university teams. Ana is the Arbitration and/or Mediation Consultant of UNDP project “Enhanced Mediation and Arbitration for Fairer and Faster Commercial Dispute Resolutions”. Ana is the second term elected member of Ethics Committee of the Georgian Bar Association. Besides native language, she is fluent in English and Russian.