Tamar Kintsurashvili

Tamar Kintsurashvili is the founder and executive director of the Media Development Foundation (MDF) and the editor-in-chief of the online portal Myth Detector. Tamar leads media literacy programs for youth and teachers. She is a member of the Deutsche Welle Akademie Media and Information Literacy Experts Network (MILEN) and the UNESCO MIL Alliance nomination committee.

Tamar is the author and co-author of many research papers and publications on Russian information warfare in Ukraine, Anti-gender and anti-LGBTQI mobilization in Georgia, Infodemic, Anti-Western propaganda, etc.

Tamar is an Associate Professor at Ilia State University. She teaches propaganda research methods, media literacy and media self-regulations and ethics. She received an MSc in policy studies from Edinburgh University and MA in journalism from Tbilisi State University.