Ketevan is a consultant within Private Sector Operations of Asian Development Bank where she focuses on the technical assistance for enhancing gender mainstreaming efforts in the private sector projects. Ketevan is an experienced practitioner in development. She has more than a decade of consultancy experience with ADB working on gender mainstreaming mainly in Central and West Asia across diverse sectors and projects. Her prior experience as a consultant and researcher covers work with a number of international development organizations. Holding PhD, Ketevan has both academic and practical experience as a development consultant, specialist and researcher.