Keti Bakradze

Democracy and Governance (DG) Team Leader with USAID/Georgia's Office of Democracy, Rights and Governance

Keti was trained as a musician and earned a Ph.D. degree in Music History. Later in her career, she transitioned to the development field and has extensive experience as a development practitioner.  Her areas of expertise include civil society, media and information integrity. Keti manages the Information Integrity program – USAID's first stand-alone program to build societal resilience to misinformation/disinformation and propaganda. 

Keti has won two prestigious scholarships as a Research Fellow at the University of Virginia and the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.  She also holds an M.A. degree in International Relations from the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.