Nino (Nutsa) Kuridze — Georgia Country Lead & Council member
The Natro Promise Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Nino (Nutsa) Kuridze as its Georgia Country Lead and a member of the foundation’s Council — the governing body that decides on every scholarship the foundation awards.
Few people in Georgia know the road between a Georgian classroom and a world-class university better than Nutsa. She has spent more than two decades building that road herself.
Two decades of opening doors
Nutsa began her career at the British Council in Tbilisi, where over six years she managed IELTS and Cambridge examinations, led marketing for the organisation in Georgia, and — as Education Export Manager — promoted UK education across Georgian society, year after year exceeding her targets for students placed in British schools.
In 2008 she co-founded UK Bridge, which grew into one of Georgia’s leading education agencies: contracting more than twenty UK institutions in its first year, later expanding to Spain, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, and guiding well over a hundred Georgian students into international study — with as many as 170 families advised each year. In 2010 she organised Georgia’s first International Education Fair, an event that has run annually ever since. Her work has ranged from designing a national summer-schools programme with Georgia’s Ministry of Education — still running, with hundreds of Olympiad students taking part — to placing judges and public officials in UK study programmes for the Ministry of Justice and the President’s Office.
She holds a Master’s in Public Administration and a degree in Economics from Tbilisi’s universities — and a career-long conviction that the foundation shares: that the distance between Georgian talent and the world’s best education is a problem of access, not ability.
What the role means
As Georgia Country Lead, Nutsa is the foundation’s presence on the ground: the person Georgian students, universities, and schools will meet first. She will lead outreach across the country, guide prospective applicants toward the foundation’s published criteria, and make sure the promise reaches beyond Tbilisi — to the Kutaisis and Telavis where brilliant minds are waiting to be found.
As a Council member, she carries that knowledge into the room where decisions are made. Every application the foundation receives is voted on by the full Council — and Nutsa’s vote now brings to that table twenty years of firsthand judgment about Georgian students and the institutions they aspire to.
The promise now has its person in Georgia. Welcome, Nutsa.