Salome Tvalodze is the head of the Sustainable Finance Division at the National Bank of Georgia (NBG). She joined the NBG in 2011 and held various positions, including the head Macro-financial Modeling and Analysis Division and a chief economist at the Macroeconomic Research Division. Salome has been leading the development of the NBG’s Sustainable Finance Framework since 2017. Ms. Tvalodze is the NBG’s representative at the NGFS and SBFN. At SBFN, she is a Co-chair of the Data & Disclosure Working Group and a member of the Sustainable Finance Instruments Working Group. She is also a member of the GRI Banking Sector Standard Technical Committee.
Salome obtained an MS in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MA in economics from the International School of Economics, ISET. Salome is a Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) Certificate holder from the GARP. Ms. Tvalodze is a Ph.D. candidate working on incorporating ESG considerations into the macro-financial analysis. She has many years of teaching experience and, currently, is a visiting lecturer at Tbilisi State University.