Tinatin Khidasheli

Tinatin Khidasheli is a Georgian human rights lawyer and former Minister of Defence, the first woman to hold the post. She chairs Civic IDEA, a think tank countering malign foreign influence and advancing anti-corruption reform across the South Caucasus and Central Asia, and is a Research Fellow at Hitotsubashi University. She previously served as an MP, represented Georgia at PACE and led the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association.