Rati Japaridze
2007 Fellow, Georgia
Rati is Managing Partner at Online Express (Onex Ltd.), a company that provides courier and cargo services from the United States to Georgia (www.onex.ge).
At the time of the 2006 John Smith Fellowship Programme, Rati was Protected Areas Project Director for the Georgian Centre for Conservation of Wildlife (GCCW). Along with his primary job at Online Express Ltd. Rati remains active in the environmental field and retains a position on the Board of the Georgian NGO ‘Green Universe’ whose main aim is to encourage biodiversity conservation activities in Georgia and to contribute to the ongoing debate around the reforms in the forestry sector.
Rati provided day-to-day management and supervision of the Protected Areas project. This involved developing biodiversity information management systems, providing training for conservation specialists and protected areas administrators, the coordination of fundraising and awareness campaigns, and applying best practice in conservation biology to natural resource management in Georgia’s protected areas.
Photo courtesy of Ruti Frensdorff (Tbilisi, 2008)
Contact
If you would like to contact Rati please write to onex@onex.ge