Tinatin Tsertsvadze

Tinatin Tsertsvadze is an Advocacy Adviser, working on the EU foreign policy and CFSP at the Open Society Foundations.

Tinatin is responsible for EU sanctions policies analyses and advocacy, EU enlargement and neighborhood East. She also has thematic expertise in EU’s human rights policies in external action and civil society space. Prior to joining Open Society, she worked for the International Partnership for Human Rights, focusing on Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia as an Advocacy Director and Gender Adviser for five years. She worked at FRIDE, a European think-tank based in Brussels and Madrid between 2010 - 2014, as Central Asia programme manager and conducted research and advocacy on EU policies towards Central Asia and the South Caucasus. She co-managed 50-member network of Brussels-based HRDN network between 2016-2019.