Meri Davlasheridze
Ms. Meri Davlasheridze’s experience encompasses strategic program management, development and implementation of agribusiness value chain initiatives, innovative financing, design and implementation of programs for knowledge and technology transfer to farming community, and etc.
Meri currently works as an Assistant Professor, in Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Marine Sciences at the Texas A&M University at Galveston, Texas. Ms. Davlasheridze’s research interests cover topics such as environmental and resource economics, disaster impact assessment, vulnerability and adaptation, applied econometrics, public policy, and welfare economics.
Meri Davlasheridze’s published works touch on developmental topics such as natural disasters and mitigation of their impact, state extension service, small business vulnerability to catastrophic events, and etc.
Ms. Meri Davlasheridze holds a B.A. Degree (Diploma with Honors) Production Economics, Organization and Management from the Tbilisi State University. She is M.S. of Agricultural Economics of Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. She acquired her Ph.D. degree in 2013 from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania with concentration on Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics.
Meri Davlasheridze is fluent in Georgian, English, and Russian.
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