Ana Diakonidze is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Tbilisi State University. Ana holds a master's degree in Social Policy Analysis from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. In 2014 she was a visiting research fellow at King's College London, UK. Ms. Diakonidze's research interests include welfare state change, political economy of labour and employment policies and modern forms of labour (digitalisation of labour). Since 2009 Ana is an invited lecturer at Tbilisi State University and Georgian Institute of Public Affairs. In addition to academic career Ms. Diakonidze works as a social policy consultant with the European Union, European Training Foundation and the World Bank in Georgia and internationally.