Tamar Kintsurashvili is the founder and executive director of the Media Development Foundation (MDF) and the editor-in-chief of the online portal Myth Detector. Tamar leads media literacy programs for youth and teachers. She is a member of the Deutsche Welle Akademie Media and Information Literacy Experts Network (MILEN) and the UNESCO MIL Alliance nomination committee.

Tamar is the author and co-author of many research papers and publications on Russian information warfare in Ukraine, Anti-gender and anti-LGBTQI mobilization in Georgia, Infodemic, etc.

Prior to joining MDF, she served as a deputy secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia in 2010-2013. She was responsible for civil integration policy development. Previously, Kintsurashvili was the first elected general director of the Georgian Public Broadcaster (2005-2009) and deputy director of the CSO Liberty Institute (2002-2005).

Tamar Kintsurashvili is associate professor at Ilia State University. She received an MSc in policy studies from Edinburgh University