Georgia | New Public Defender starts performing her duties

On 8 December 8 2017, Ms Nino Lomjaria started performing her duties as the new Public Defender of Georgia. The Parliament of Georgia elected the sixth Public Defender for a five-year term on 30 November 2017.

Nino Lomjaria, Master of Law of Washington University in St. Louis and Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, was the First Deputy Auditor General of Georgia in 2016-2017; from 2003 to 2016 she occupied leading positions in the following organizations: International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO), Georgian Young Lawyers' Association.

Nino Lomjaria delivers lecture course - Democracy and Election Systems at the University of Georgia; she had been delivering lectures in Election Law as a visiting professor at Ilia State University in previous years. She is the author of about twenty surveys and publications.

Source: Office of the Public Defender, Georgia