Shalva Kipshidze currently serves as Chief of Party in Liberia. He brings 13 years of experience in election assistance to IFES and has served as Chief Electoral Data Management advisor to the election commissions of Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq while working for the UN. Most recently, Kipshidze had been working as Senior Advisor for Voter Registration for IFES in Liberia, where he has provided critical support to the National Elections Commission (NEC).

In addition, he has worked for both IFES and NDI in his native Georgia. On several occasions, Kipshidze worked as a staff member and consultant of IFES in Azerbaijan, European Commission in Lebanon and IOM in Jordan.

Kipshidze holds BA from Tbilisi State University, Georgia, and MA from the Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic as well as MA from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. He is fluent in English, Russian and Georgian.

• Kingdom of Nepal: Technical Assessment of Election System Performance, Phase 2: July-August 2000
• IFES, September 2000
• Kingdom of Nepal: Technical Assessment of Election System Performance: Parliamentary General Elections
• IFES, February 2000
• Technical Assistance for the 31 May Elections and Legal Reform, April 1998-March 1999
• June 1999
• Final Activity Report: The First Colloquium on the Development of Election Administration in Yemen
• IFES, June 1999
• Report to IFES : Technical Assistance Project, Republic of Moldova (Nov 22-24, 1998)
• IFES, November 1998
• Evaluation Pre-Electorale Technique: Republique du Benin, 23 November - 9 December 1997
• IFES, January 1998
• On-Site Technical Assistance Mission, Bosnia and Herzegovina, January - March 1996
• April 1996
• Revision du Register Electoral et Preparations Electorales Evaluation Technique, le 19 octobre, 4 novembre
• IFES, January 1995