Europe and the Caucasus

Mikheil is a 4th semester PhD student in political science at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. He also works at the university as a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

Since 2012, he is actively participating as a returning scholar in OSF's and HESP's Academic Fellowship Program. Thanks to the Marie Curie Actions Scholarship, he will visit Vilnius University for one semester to give classes, participate in conferences and do doctoral research.

 Any special plans for the Georgian Alumni Chapter?

Jeton works as the research director of the GAP Institute, a Kosovo-based think tank. He has extensive experience in research and policy advocacy, and his academic papers have been published by Pelgrave Macmillan, Brown Walker Press, Nomos, and the Journal of Balkans and Near Eastern Studies among others. Jeton is the country author of IREX’s annual report, the Media Sustainability Index, and has received two fellowship awards, the Marshall Memorial Fellowship and the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence.