Kakha NADIRADZE

Dr. Kakha Nadiradze appointed on the position of Chair of Commission on Ecosystems Management, CEM IUCN Eastern Regional Branch Chair for Eastern Europe. With more than 26 years of experience, Kakha Nadiradze has positioned himself in various management positions with the vision of promoting innovative and scientific development in Ecosystems Protection, Management, Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation, Expert of Habitats, Protected Areas and Agrobiodiversity, Agroecology and Food Systems. He provides professional advisory/consulting/extension services to Government, Policy Makers, producers and agricultural companies around the world in the implementation of sustainable Food systems, comprehensive optimization of Agribusiness and evaluation of market opportunities.

He is focused on promoting sustainable agriculture through soil conservation techniques, combating desertification and soils erosion, implementing regenerative agriculture methods, Gene Banking and in vitro and ex-situ conservation. Using in practice the Nature Based Solutions, NBS among others. He has published extensively in these areas, linking theory and practice to inform policymaking on food, agriculture, the environment, circularity and human well-being.

Dr. Kakha Nadiradze is elected as a Chair of the DesertNET International (Agropolis International). He is an editorial Board Member of Next Academic and Scientific Journals: Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, of The International Journal of Multidisciplinary Informative Research and Review (IJMIRR), Journal on Mountain Ecosystems & Resource Management and of the Journal - Entrepreneurship Research and Education Network of Central European Universities, ERENET. He is an author of a large number of analytical publications and has been a speaker of Local and International conferences and workshops. Involved in the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition Project (GODAN) in advocating for open data to bring about innovation to achieve food security (SDG2). Kakha Nadiradze is a Task Force Member of the Global Genome Biodiversity Network, GGBN, Smithsonian Institute (US). Dr. Nadiradze has provided effective expertise in different local and international projects in Biodiversity Conservation, Ecological Restoration, management and monitoring by providing science-based planning strategies to protect and enhance native species, habitats, and ecosystems at global, regional, and local scales. He has received different Scholarships from ESBB.

He is a Member of the IUCN CEM (Commission on Ecosystem Management), Planta Europe, GODAN (Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition), BES-Net, (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network), MBON (Marine Biodiversity Observation Network), The Research Data Alliance (RDA), The Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation — GFAR, GFRAS and Founder of EUFRAS, Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI), the European Soil Data Centre and GEO BON – The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity),and of the Think Tank organization Groupe de Bruges (Independent network and think tank on European agricultural and rural development policies, GdB). Kakha is well placed to develop conservation science that is aimed at international conservation policy targets, such as those agreed under the Convention on Biological Diversity, CITES and the UNFCCC, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Member of the European, Middle Eastern and African Society for Bio Preservation & Biobanking, ESBB. Member of the Agroecology Coalition. Global Network of Civil Society Organization’s for Disaster Reduction (GNDR), Global Risk Forum. (GRF), Davos Switzerland, Member of the Nexus Coalition,