Giga Zedania is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies at Ilia State University. He studied philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies in Georgia, the USA, Hungary, and Germany, and holds a PhD from Ruhr-Universität Bochum. As an academic and public intellectual, he has published widely on the history of philosophy, intellectual history, and recent socio-political transformations in Georgian, English, and German. He served as Rector of Ilia State University from 2014 to 2022 and is a member of the Governing Board and Chair of the Research Committee of the Magna Charta Observatory in Bologna.