Tamar Kvantaliani is an Oxford University graduate awarded by Weidenfeld Scholarship holding a degree in MSc – Nature, Society and Environmental Policy. Currently, she works as a Deputy Head at the Agency of Protected Areas under the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection of Georgia where she supervises international relations and project management direction.<\/p>\n
Before the degree at Oxford University where the topic of her thesis was \u201cGoverning Protected Areas: State and Non-State Actors in Post-Soviet Georgia\u201d she started her academic educational background with the bachelor\u2019s degree in Human Geography (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences) in Georgia directly followed by two-year master programme in the same field.<\/p>\n
Tamar has more than 7 years of working experience both in private and public sectors. At first, she started her career in non-governmental think tank which was followed by the position of chief specialist at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection of Georgia after returning from UK. Later, she moved to the Agency of Protected Areas within the same ministry as a Head of International Relations and Project Management Service followed by the position of Deputy Head where she stands for now – dealing with numerous projects funded by various international organizations.<\/p>\n
In addition, Tamar has got some international expertise. She has done a short internship in the Czech Republic at the Ministry of Environment and in 2015, she participated in the International Seminar on Protected Areas Management at Montana University funded by US Forest Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14125,"template":"","years_alumni":[253],"class_list":["post-14124","alumni_post_type","type-alumni_post_type","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","years_alumni-253"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n