Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing of the TSU Faculty of Economics and Business; Doctor of Economics; author of over 70 scholarly papers, as well as three monographs and three textbooks. She has worked as Director of Economic Education Programs in Georgia (CEE), consultant and coordinator of UNDP, UNECE, OSCE/ODIHR, World Bank, Women Global Fund programs; organizer and participant in a number of international conferences and seminars; member of the World Social Marketing Association (WSMA), representative of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) in the South Caucasus.