Ekaterine Mikabadze has been the Deputy-Governor of the National Bank of Georgia (NBG) since November 2023 and as First Deputy Governor since February 10, 2025. She is a member of the Board of the National Bank of Georgia from July 2021. Her main responsibilities are Monetary Policy design and implementation, Macroeconomic Research, Financial and External Sector Statistics, Capital Market Supervision. She started working for the NBG in 2009 as a Chief Economist of Macroeconomic and Statistics Department. In 2016 she held position of Acting Head of Macroeconomic Analysis and Fiscal Policy Planning Department of Ministry of Finance of Georgia. In 2018-2021 she served as a Deputy Minister and then the First Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.
Ms. Ekaterine Mikabadze graduated with bachelor’s degree in Information Science and Management Systems from Technical University of Georgia (1995); she is a graduate of Tokyo International University, Japan in 2008 with Master’s Degree in Economics.