Nino Doborjginidze

Nino Doborjginidze (; born 21 March 1960) is a Georgian philogist and academic. She has been rector of the Ilia State University since 2022.

Early life and education Doborjginidze was born on 21 March 1960. She graduated in 1982 with a degree in classical philology from Tbilisi State University and obtained her PhD in linguistics in 1988. In October 2025, she criticised Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s proposal for university reform, which involves a change in the funding model and a reduction in the number of faculties, stating that “A university is not just buildings, especially buildings that can be sold for profit. A university is the most important place of memory“. In December of that year, Doborjginidze criticised the ‘one city, one faculty’ model, pointing out that it would lead to a "catastrophic" rise in the cost of living for students and would result in the abolition of duplicate educational programmes and competition. She was re-elected on 2 February 2026.

Books Figurative Discourse on Translation in Medieval Georgia: A Sociocultural Perspective (2026) Establishing Guidelines for MLU Measurement in an Agglutinating Language: An Illustration of Georgian (2024) Medieval Translation in the Light of the Polysystem and Rewriting Theories the Georgian Case (2021) The Epigraphic Corpus of Georgia (2017)