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 Deutsche Welle FoS Award-winning journalist and MIL educator, as well as a member of the Deutsche Welle Akademie’s Media and Information Literacy Experts Network (MILEN), where she contributes to global discussions on media literacy and democratic participation. 

Tamar also serves as editor-in-chief of Myth Detector, a fact-checking and disinformation analysis platform that is a verified member of both the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) and the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN). 

In academia, Tamar Kintsurashvili is an associate professor at Ilia State University, where she teaches media ethics and propaganda research methods.