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Beka Bajelidze
Operations Director

Beka Bajelidze comes from Ajaria on the Georgian Black Sea coast. He took a degree in English Language and Literature and recently obtained a masters degree in Public Administration. He also speaks Turkish. After experience of project management with the OSCE mission to Georgia and the National Democratic Institute of the United States, he joined IWPR in April 2004.

Shahin Rzayev
Country Director Azerbaijan

I was born on April 22, 1965 in the village of Surakhany near the Azerbaijan capital of Baku in an important oil-producing area. I have lived there all my life. My late father worked in an engineering factory, while my mother worked in a library. She is retired now.

Seda Muradayan
Country Director Armenia

Seda has a degree in television journalism from Yerevan’s State Pedagogical University. For six years she was on the team of A1+ television station, which was taken off air in 2002, working as reporter, editor, and news presenter. After closure of A1+ she joined the newly established Caucasus Media Institute. She continues to write for A1+’s website and weekly newspaper. In 2003 Seda spent six months as Knight Fellowship visiting fellow, researching new trends in war reporting, at the Atlantic Council in Washington.

Oliver Bullough
Editor
Giorgi Kupatadze
Web Editor

Giorgi has spent the last ten years working for various Georgian and Russian news agencies, newspapers and magazines as a journalist and editor. He has worked for the Media Diversity Institute as the Georgian coordinator on Minority Reporting and Media Monitoring projects. Giorgi is the co-founder of the Black Sea Press Journalist Association in Georgia. He also worked as the web-editor for information portal “News-Georgia”.