Tamar Kintsurashvili is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Media Development Foundation (MDF), a leading Georgian civil society organization specilizing in disinformation research, fact-checking, and media literacy. She is DW FoS Award-winning journalist and MIL educator and a member of the Deutsche Welle Akademie’s Media and Information Literacy Experts Network (MILEN), contributing her expertise to global discussions on media literacy and democratic participation. 

Tamar is the editor-in-chief of Myth Detector, a fact-checking and disinformation analysis portal, which is a verified member of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) and and the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN). In academia, Tamar Kintsurashvili serves as an associate professor at Ilia State University, where she teaches courses on media ethics and propaganda research methods.