Ekaterina Baramidze has around 20 years of experience in project elaboration and management within international organizations; since 2007 she was actively involved in the EU Georgian Cooperation issues, while working as an EU Institution Building Instruments Expert, she supported the different Georgian line ministries and agencies in the affective use of EU assistant tools like Twinning, TAIEX, SIGMA, etc. She has elaborated practical guidelines for the public servants about the effective application of the TAIEX tool and how to draft institutional Twinning project fiche.

Ekaterina has joined the LMF team since March 2015. At the LMF she is in charge of the overall leadership & management of the LMF projects implementation to ensure effective & efficient follow-up of the execution of individual projects. Support to the review & improvement of the operational procedures of the LMF. The major areas directed are: recruiting & staffing; organizational planning; performance management & improvement systems; organization development; management & coordination of short-term consultants; identification & elaboration of new projects & budgets based on the LMF policy & strategy. Intensive cooperation & communication with relevant state administrations, media & civil society organization working in the field of the EU approximation. Elaboration & Management of the project related activities & dissemination of information about the EU Georgia cooperation among ethnic minorities and other groups. Arrangement & management of public events: public lectures, conferences, roundtable discussions, workshops etc.