Ia Eradze Doctor in Social and Economic Sciences (Dr. rer pol) is working on a research project Communist Legacies, initiated by the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam (ZZF Potsdam), where she focuses on the emergence of the financial sector and financial elites in the 1990s Georgia. Her area of research is political economy of finance in Georgia and Eastern Europe. She is currently teaching economic transition of Georgia and political economy respectively at the Ilia State University (Tbilisi) and Berlin School of Economics and Law.