Zviad Adzinbaia is an entrepreneur, strategy and policy practitioner at the forefront of technology, security, and geopolitics. As Senior Consultant for Policy and Technology at HarrisX, he focuses on initiatives on artificial intelligence, international security, information integrity, shaping high-level discussions on digital diplomacy and strategic competition. A frequent contributor to global forums and media, he is known for pioneering solutions to combat information manipulation and advancing multistakeholder collaboration on critical digital challenges using digital diplomacy.

Zviad is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of LEADx, a premier leadership accelerator and summit that has engaged 2,000+ professionals across Europe and Eurasia. Since 2019, he has led five editions of LEADx, accelerating 200 mid-career professionals from 20 countries through leadership and strategy training, as well as launching high-level crisis simulations and technology demos. Under his leadership, LEADx has built a vast global network of partners and hosted hundreds of distinguished speakers from the world’s leading institutions.

From 2022 to 2023, Zviad led the Digital Diplomacy Task Force for Ukraine, working with Google, Meta, and other major technology and multinational organizations to apply trust and safety guidelines and other international legal frameworks to Russia’s state-sponsored wartime influence operations on digital platforms. He also developed the Forward Information System (FIS)—a cutting-edge framework that integrates strategy, tactics and operations, impact evaluation, real-time alerts, predictive forecasting, and other tech-enabled measures to outsmart threat actors. He has presented FIS framework in 15 countries across Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific as part of global policy and security discussions.

A 2024 Fellow of the Special Competitive Studies Project, founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Zviad is at the forefront of AI, information integrity, and strategic competition. He has coined the term "Temocracy"—tech-enabled democracy—and has been a leading advocate for digital diplomacy as a strategic tool for multistakeholder engagement on core digital matters. In 2020, Zviad led a digital campaign towards TikTok, generating nearly 2 million user engagements and prompting the platform to revise its policies toward Georgia. This set a precedent for platform accountability in emerging democracies. In 2019, Forbes Georgia recognized him in its inaugural 30 Under 30 list.

Zviad’s career includes roles at the European Parliament, NATO Defense College in Rome, and leading global advisory firms and media outlets. At NATO, he authored a widely cited report on strengthening the Alliance’s Black Sea strategy within the broader context of U.S. and European strategic competition with Russia and its allies.

Zviad is a Ph.D. candidate and a Sarah Scaife & Lynde and Harry Bradley Doctoral Scholar at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he also earned his Master of Arts. As a 2021-2022 Fulbright Senior Scholar, he collaborated with Microsoft’s Democracy Forward Initiative, exploring innovative approaches to information integrity and outsmarting threat actors. Building on this work, he now leads Fletcher’s inaugural Tools and Weapons symposium on digital diplomacy & information integrity.

A native of Georgia, he earned his Bachelor of Arts with honors from Sokhumi State University in Tbilisi. A passionate jazz enthusiast, he founded Gali Jazz, a jazz diplomacy initiative leveraging music and the arts to advocate for human rights and wider societal change.