Invited Speakers

Paul Zazadze is the President of Georgian Cloister in Istanbul and Managing Director at Personna Tıras Ürünleri Kozmetik Ltd. Harvard Business School. 

Nathalie Zazadze is an Lawer and cultural preservationist based in Istanbul, Turkey. 

She serves as a Board Member of the Georgian Catholic Foundation and is widely recognized for her dedicated efforts in safeguarding, studying, and promoting the heritage of the Georgian Catholic Monastery of Istanbul (historically referred to as the Istanbul Georgian Cloister or the Church of the Immaculate Conception / Virgin of Lourdes in Feriköy).

Rinaldo Marmara is a historian specialized in the history of Latin Catholic community in Turkey. He has several books and articles about the history of the Latin community covering the Byzantine, Ottoman, and Turkish Republican period.