Hi. Welcome to my personal website!

I'm currently the Head of Macroeconomics and Statistics Department at the National Bank of Georgia, covering monetary policy, macroeconomic research, monetary statistics and balance of payments statistics. We produce the flagship quarterly Monetary Policy Report, including macroeconomic forecasts with an explicit (conditional) forward guidance (forecast of the monetary policy rate).

At the same time, I'm an Economics PhD candidate at the VU Amsterdam, with the coursework provided by Tinbergen Institute. My PhD topic is Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), studying different characteristics of CBDCs and their possible implications for monetary policy and financial stability.

In addition, as a Technical Advisor of the International Monetary Fund, I have been part of technical missions to different countries. The missions aim at helping central banks in building capacity for model-based macroeconomic analysis.

Last but not least, I've also taught macro and monetary economics at various Georgian universities. Currently, I teach at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET).

My main research interests are: monetary economics, financial intermediaton, CBDC and macroeconomic modeling.