I am a Research Economist and Assistant Adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). 

I'm a co-founder and a Governing Board member of the Georgian Economic Association (GEA).

I received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. From 2015 to 2019, I was an assistant professor at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF).

My research interests include innovation, firm dynamics, growth, productivity, and entrepreneurship.

    Ongoing conferences that I'm co-organizing:

• The 1st International Conference of the Georgian Economic Association (2024)

• Firm Dynamics and the Macroeconomy, FRB Atlanta (2022, 2023, 2024)

• Rome Workshop on Macroeconomics (a.k.a. Pizzanomics), EIEF (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)