Team

Blue Shield Georgia team consists of heritage professionals, heritage activists and volunteers

Manana Tevzadze

Chairman

Manana is a graduate of international master’s course in World Heritage Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology. She has over 10 years of experience working in cultural heritage management in Georgia. Her experience ranges from working for the public sector (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Department of Culture, UNESCO National Commission and the Georgian National Museum) to private sector (Contemporary Arts center and residence Art Villa Garikula) and academia (Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and Ilia State University). Read more…

Mariam Kalkhitashvili

Programs Manager

Mariam is a painting restorer, she has been working on conservation/restoration of easel and mural paintings since 2006. She joined Georgian National Committee of the Blue Shield in 2013 and in 2015 participated in a course on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis, organised by ICCROM (The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property). Read more…

Lela Ninoshvili

Project Coordinator 

Lela Ninoshvili is a graduate of Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts and Rome La Sapienza University, specializing in conservation/restoration of stone and preservation of historic wall paintings. Since 2012 she has been working at ICOMOS Georgia as a project coordinator and wall painting/stone conservator. Read More…

Tamar Sopromadze

Project Coordinator

The graduate of Tbilisi State University and Leiden University, an art historian. Currently attending a Master’s program at Tbilisi State University – Cultural Heritage and Modernity and is specializing in the relationship between culture and the architecture. She joined Blue shield Georgia’s team in 2020 and is involved in project implementation and organizational activities. Read more…

Misho Davitashvili

Financial Assistant