Ms. Margalita Arabidze

Ms. Margalita Arabidze is Deputy Head of Energy Reforms and International Relations at the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (MoESD) and associate professor at Georgian Technical University. She has more than 15 years of experience working in energy sector. Margalita with her department is currently working on EE, RE secondary legislation, action plans, Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan 2021-2030 (NECP) and on other important issues. Beside that Ms. Arabidze has very close cooperation with local and international donors, investors, IFIs and international organizations. She is cooperation with Energy Community since 2014 within different formats such as RECG and other relevant aspects. Besides that Margalita Arabidze is represented in IRENA, UNECE, IAEA and other. During previous years Ms. Arabidze worked on different positions in MoESD, Ministry of Energy and GTU. With supervision of her department important laws and action plans were developed and adopted in late 2019 and mid-2020, such as RE law. EE and EPB laws, also NREAP and NEEAP for 2019-2020. Ms. Margalita Arabidze is an author for a number of publications and textbooks on issues such as, energy complexes, EE, RE and climate change in energy sector.