Zaza Namoradze, director of the Open Society Justice Initiative’s Budapest office, oversees programs on legal capacity development, legal empowerment, legal aid reform, and access to justice. Namoradze previously served as staff attorney and, later, Deputy Director of the Open Society Institute’s Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute, where he designed and oversaw projects in legal clinics, constitutional and judicial reforms, and human rights litigation capacity building throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Namoradze has worked for the legal department of the Central Electoral Commission in Georgia and was a member of the State Constitutional Commission.
Namoradze graduated from Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University, studied in the comparative constitutionalism program of the Central European University, and earned an LL.M from the University of Chicago Law School.