Irakli Iagorashvili completed the first JGS course in Georgia (the country) in 2019. On his own time and dime, he then launched Ayn Rand Center Georgia and began organizing, hosting, and teaching JGS courses—receiving more than 200 applications for the autumn 2021 course. Because JGS courses permit a maximum of 25 students, Irakli is now working to meet the clear demand for more courses in the region.
Irakli is also producing weekly podcasts discussing and applying Objectivism, and running twice-monthly study groups with students at both the University of Georgia and Free University. Further, in cooperation with Annie Vinther Sanz, director of operations at Prometheus Foundation, Irakli is engaging with the Bank of Georgia’s investment bank, fittingly called Galt & Taggart, to fund publications of more of Rand’s works in Georgian. (Galt & Taggart had already funded publications of Atlas Shrugged, We the Living, and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.)
