Ketevan Chincharadze

Ketevan Chincharadze joins the MIP program to deepen her expertise in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and emerging technology policy, building on her career in international security. At Stanford, she particularly focuses on AI-enabled warfare, defense technology, the space race, and their implications for great power competition.

Before joining Stanford, Ketevan served as a Policy Advisor at the Aspen Institute Congressional Program in Washington, D.C., where she developed programs for Members of the U.S. Congress on global policy challenges. She worked directly with more than 150 Members of Congress, participated in high-level discussions across five continents, and drafted nearly 100 policy initiatives for U.S. lawmakers. Alongside her policy work, Ketevan has conducted research with the U.S. Army War College, co-authoring a new theory of hybrid warfare. Her independent analyses of Russia’s evolving wartime cyber tactics have also been featured in West Point’s Modern War Institute and Autonomy Papers. Her contributions have been recognized through prestigious fellowships at the Warsaw Security Forum and the International Strategy Forum, an initiative for emerging leaders in technology and policy at Eric Schmidt’s Special Competitive Studies Project.

In Georgia, Ketevan runs FYI, one of the country’s largest and most trusted geopolitical platforms. In a country of only a few million people, FYI has garnered millions of views and tens of thousands of followers across social media and created professional opportunities for aspiring policy analysts. Her impactful work in foreign policy research and education earned her a place on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.