Melita Phachulia
Executive Assistant
Melita Phachulia is an Executive Assistant at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), working closely with the Stockholm Center for Research and Innovation Security (SCRIS) and the Asia Program. She holds a master’s degree in Disinformation and Societal Resilience from the University of Tartu, a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia, and a modular master’s in Adult Education, with a focus on digitalization and democracy from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
Her work focuses on hybrid warfare, security, research and innovation, and resilience with regional expertise in the Nordic-Baltic and Black Sea regions, as well as NATO-related security environments.
Before joining ISDP, she contributed to several institutions and initiatives, including the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS), the Baltic Defence College, Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (EVZ), EU DisinfoLab, Hybrid European Democracy Festival, National Democratic Institute (NDI) Georgia, DVV International, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). She is also a scholar of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) 360/Digital Sherlocks program.
