Ketevan Bolkvadze is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science in Lund.

She has previously been a Crafoord fellow at Harvard University (2023) and a visiting scholar at Uppsala University (2015). Ketevan holds a PhD from the University of Gothenburg (2018). 

Her research interests include democratization and hybrid regimes, justice and security reforms, as well as environmental politics. More broadly, she’s interested in how to make democratic governance work, how to incentivize politicians to shift from short to long time-horizons and prompt them to provide better public services to their citizens.

Her work has appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, and Democratization, among others. Ketevan is a recipient of several large-scale research grants, including from Horizon Europe, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development, the Crafoord Foundation, and the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.

In addition to her academic work, Ketevan also serves (or has served) as a consultant for Freedom House (NiT Advisor), the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (External Consultant), and the Georgian Institute of Politics (Board Member).