Tamara Kinzuraschwili

Tamara Kinzurashvili (born May 8, 1970 in Zqaltubo, Georgian SSR) is a Georgian journalist. Since August 2005, she has been the Director General of the Public Broadcasting Network of Georgia (SSM). Edit LifeQualtext

She studied journalism at the Tbilisi University, did internships at the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers, and the Reuters news agency. She passed her examination in 1994.

From 1993 to 1995, she worked as a freelance collaborator for Georgia's first non-partisan daily newspaper, Droni (Die Zeit). In 1995 she became a political editor, 1999 deputy chief editor. From October 1999 she wrote for the US newspaper Desert News. In 2001 she temporarily switched to the Georgian-French wine producer Castel Georgia as a public relations manager.

In the same year she became an employee of the Freedom Institute in Tbilisi, took over the leadership of the program for communication and media. She wrote and published Georgian standard works on media freedom and self-regulation.

In March 2005, she was elected by the Georgian Parliament to the Board of Trustees of the Georgian Public Radio, where she was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees. On 22 August she elected the Board of Trustees for six years to the Generaldirektorium of the Rundfunkanstalt. It ended the protection-based, overhauled staff structures, subjected all staff to a qualitative evaluation and hired new employees.

Kinzurashvili is single. She speaks Georgian, English and Russian. Edit WorksQualtext Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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