The Margaret Thatcher Centre of Georgia is a think tank that promotes libertarian principles including limited government, free markets, and individual freedom in the country of Georgia. ^{1 2}

The organization is partnered with the Atlas Network and Ukrainian Students for Freedom’s Leadership Program: Belarus. ^{3 4}

People

Mariam Khokhobaia founded the Margaret Thatcher Centre of Georgia in 2020. Prior to founding the organization, Khokhobaia was a senior project manager at the Open Society Foundations, a private grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros. She was in that position between April 2014 and April 2017 before becoming a member and policy analyst at the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia from September 2016 until December 2017. ⁵

Khokhobaia was a communications fellow at the Heritage Foundation from September 2021 until November 2021. The Heritage Foundation is a right-of-center policy think tank founded in 1973 that researches and recommends policies such as free markets, limited government, a strong national defense, and courts that adhere to the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Khokhobaia returned to the Heritage Foundation as an academy fellow in January 2022, a position that her LinkedIn page stated that she holds as of April 2024. ^{5 6 7}

Affiliated Organizations

The Margaret Thatcher Centre of Georgia is partnered with the Atlas Network, formerly known as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in the United States. The group aims to promote free-market economic policies across the world. ³

The Margaret Thatcher Centre of Georgia is also partnered with Ukrainian Students for Freedom’s Leadership Program: Belarus. ⁴

1. “The Margaret Thatcher Centre of Georgia.” LinkedIn. Accessed April 1, 2024. https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-margaret-thatcher-centre-of-georgia/about/.
2. “The Margaret Thatcher Centre of Georgia.” Facebook. Accessed April 1, 2024. https://www.facebook.com/TheMTCG/.
3. “The Margaret Thatcher Center held a Storytelling Workshop in Georgia on March 23-24 this year with the support of the partner organization Atlas Network..” Facebook. Accessed April 1, 2024. https://www.facebook.com/TheMTCG/posts/pfbid02623odQTFgjqrn5i4kF73Pu6JZCvAEA3aYbbWgwLWRDUaqUggj4sXE6rMpzk5WfWFl.
4. “The Leadership Program: Belarus.” Ukrainian Students for Freedom. Accessed April 1, 2024. https://studfreedom.org/en/the-leadership-program-belarus/.
5. “Mariam Khokhobaia.” LinkedIn. Accessed April 1, 2024. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariam-khokhobaia-a3b1794a/details/experience/.
6. “Home.” The Heritage Foundation. Accessed April 1, 2024. https://www.heritage.org/.
7. “About.” The Heritage Foundation. Accessed April 1, 2024. https://www.heritage.org/about-heritage/impact.