Khatuna Mshvidobadze is a Professorial Lecturer of Cybersecurity at George Washington University and an Adjunct Professor at Champlain College. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Rondeli Foundation in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her articles have appeared in such prestigious publications as Jane's Defence Weekly, US News & World Report, and more. She has been featured in Newsweek and Wired magazines. Earlier, she developed and taught cybersecurity courses at Utica University.
Previously, she was Advisor to the Minister of Defense of Georgia and Deputy Director of the Information Center on NATO. She has spoken at TEDx, DefCon, RSA and more. She presented on cyber threats at The Office of the Secretary of Defense, FBI Headquarters and field offices, Department of Justice, Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council, Mitre Corporation, Raytheon BBN Technologies, NATO and the EU.
She holds a B.A. in English and Western Literature from Tbilisi State University, an M.B.A. from the Caucasus School of Business, an M.S. in Cyber Forensics and Intelligence from Utica University, NY and a Ph.D. from Georgian Technical University. In the autumn of 2011, she was a Rumsfeld Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies. She is a native Georgian speaker, fluent in English, Russian, and intermediate in Turkish and Italian.