Rati Kochlamazashvili joined the Georgian Farmers’ Association (GFA) in 2020 as a Deputy Chairman. He oversees the smooth operation of GFA’s regional offices, leads farmer advocacy efforts, and manages the planning and implementation of research and development projects. Representing GFA both nationally and internationally, Rati actively voices the association’s positions in policy discussions, stakeholder meetings, and media engagements.

He heads the Farmers’ Council, a platform uniting over 20 sectoral associations and serving as GFA’s main mechanism for protecting farmers’ interests. In addition, Rati runs a small family farm in the Kakheti region.

With extensive expertise in agricultural and rural development policy planning and evaluation, he has advised international organizations such as the World Bank (WB), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the German International Development Cooperation (GIZ).

Rati was Deputy Head of the Agrarian Policy Research Center at the ISET Policy Institute. Earlier, in 2012–2013, he participated in an agricultural exchange program in the United States, later serving as a junior scientist at the University of Minnesota.

Rati holds a master’s degree in economics from Tbilisi State University, having conducted his thesis research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from TSU. He has completed numerous local and international certification programs in economics, agrarian policy, leadership, and management, including Teaching Fellow and MASHAV courses in the Czech Republic and Israel, as well as leadership training through FORWARD Academy and the LEO Institute in Georgia. Rati also taught Principles of Economics at the University of Georgia and Ilia State University.