Eka Gigauri is the Executive Director at Transparency International Georgia and a former member of the board of directors at Transparency International global movement.

Previously, she was working in Governmental, Non-governmental, and Private sectors, mainly in the fields of Foreign Relations (including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs) and Marketing and Communications Consultancy (Marriott International, Institute for Polling and Marketing). Ms. Gigauri is a former Deputy Head of the Border Police of Georgia dealing with anti-corruption reforms and international cooperation in the agency. 

Eka holds LLM in International Law from VU University Amsterdam, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Caucasus School of Business, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Tbilisi State University. Eka Gigauri is a fellow of the Stanford University Democracy and Development Programme and an alumna of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.