Natia Seskuria

Natia Seskuria

Guest Speaker

Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI); Founder and Director, Regional Institute for Security Studies (RISS)

Natia Seskuria was a fellow at the Davis Center in the spring of 2025. She is an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and a founder and director of the Regional Institute for Security Studies (RISS), a Tbilisi-based think tank and an official partner of RUSI. Natia is an international security expert and consultant with more than 10 years of experience. She is an author of dozens of reports and academic articles and is regularly interviewed on international security issues by the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera English, France-24, and other media outlets. Prior to her current roles, Natia held an advisory position at Chatham House, was a Black Sea Fellow at the Middle East Institute, and served in the office of Georgia's National Security Council.