Since December 2013, Zura Simonia worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Director at the MCA Georgia, responsible for management of a full-scale results-based M&E system under the Millennium Challenge Compact II. Currently, he serves as a Monitoring and Evaluation Director at Millennium Foundation.
In 2011 he was appointed a Vice President of the Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and provided investment management services in the priority fields of the Georgian economy including: education, agriculture, tourism, banking, real estate and construction.
In 2009 - 2010, Zura served as a Director at the Investment Risk Management Agency to address post war political risk challenges by means of providing support to foreign investors via facilitating the acquisition of political risk insurance and financing from foreign state export credit agencies (ECAs) as well as international financial institutions.
In 2008, he worked as an Associate in Research at Duke University where he provided research support to the program faculty and tutorial assistance in public finance and macroeconomic policy tools. In 2007, he worked as an Education Research Analyst at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC.
In 2000 - 2006 Zurab worked as an Education Finance Expert within the World Bank financed General Education Reform. As a result of such initiative a new nationwide per capita based school funding system and teacher salary pay model was elaborated and implemented under his personal leadership.
Zura Simonia earned his Master's Degree in International Business and Foreign Trade at the Tbilisi State University in 1997 and Master's Degree in International Development Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy, at Duke University, North Carolina, USA, in 2008. He Speaks Georgian, English and Russian.
