Ketevan Chachkhiani

Ketevan Chachkhiani is a scholar and practitioner in educational policy and evaluation, with expertise in educational change and post-socialist transformations, teacher policies, teacher education and professional development, K-12 educational leadership and internationalization of higher education. For her dissertation study, Ketevan explored how different forms of the control dimension of autonomy manifest in teachers’ classroom behavior and student achievement. Her qualitative and quantitative work has contributed to peer-reviewed publications as well as book chapters by leading publishers.

Since 2005, Ketevan has held leadership and consulting roles with national and international organizations, contributing to the implementation of institutional and national-level educational reforms in Georgia and other post-Soviet countries. At Arizona State University (ASU), she serves as a Research Analyst at the Global Futures Laboratory, where she contributes to interdisciplinary research initiatives as part of the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative and the NSF-funded WaterSIMmersive programs. At ASU, she has also served as a Program Director for university-led initiatives within the USAID-funded Educating the Future program, where she co-led implementation and managed cross-institutional collaboration to support partner universities in Georgia in strengthening teacher preparation, educational leadership programs, and research capacity.

In addition to her research and policy work, Ketevan has teaching experience at both U.S. and international institutions. She currently teaches in the EdD program in Leadership and Innovation at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation. She has also taught graduate and undergraduate courses in education in the country of Georgia, at Tbilisi State University and East European University.