Nodar Surguladze

Nodar Surguladze, PhD
Senior Director, Early Childhood Strategy and Partnerships

Nodar Surguladze, PhD, has served as Senior Director, Early Childhood Strategy and Partnerships at San Diego State University in Georgia since May 2026.

Prior to this role, Dr. Surguladze served as the Local Coordinator for San Diego State University’s World Bank-funded Early Childhood Education Project in Georgia from November 2023 until the completion of the project in March 2026.

Before joining the ECE Project, he held the position of Tertiary Education Project Director at Millennium Challenge Account–Georgia from 2012 to 2019 and served as Tertiary Education Director at the Millennium Foundation from 2019 to 2023.

From 2008 to 2012, Dr. Surguladze was the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, overseeing higher education and science in the country.

Before his tenure at the ministry, from 2006 to 2008, Dr. Surguladze was the Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biological Physics. Concurrently, he worked in the administration of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, in the Department of Scientific Research and Development.

Dr. Surguladze holds a Master’s degree in Biophysics from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and a PhD in Molecular Biology from the Academy of Sciences of Georgia. Between 2002 and 2005, he conducted postdoctoral research and served as a Visiting Research Scholar at the College of Medicine at Pennsylvania State University, USA.

He is the co-author of more than 20 scientific publications in various journals, an author of intellectual property, and was a member of international scientific societies from 2004 to 2006.