Shalva is the Head of Macroeconomic Research Division at the National Bank of Georgia, where he supervises development and maintenance of macroeconomic models used for forecasting and policy analysis as well as writing relevant research papers. At the same time, Shalva is also a Technical Advisor of the International Monetary Fund, where he, as a short-term expert, takes part in IMF technical missions that help central banks of different countries in macroeconomic modeling. In addition, he has several years of teaching experience at various Georgian universities.
Shalva holds a Master of Science degree in Economics from Humboldt University of Berlin and a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Tbilisi State University. His research interests include monetary economics, financial intermediation and macro-financial modeling. His most recent papers are:

• Shalva Mkhatrishvili & Giorgi Tsutskiridze & Lasha Arevadze, 2020. "Sterilized FX interventions may not be so sterilized," NBG Working Papers 02/2020, National Bank of Georgia.
• Lasha Arevadze & Tamta Sopromadze & Giorgi Tsutskiridze & Shalva Mkhatrishvili, 2020. "Identifying the Phillips Curve in Georgia," NBG Working Papers 01/2020, National Bank of Georgia.
• Shalva Mkhatrishvili & Douglas Laxton & Davit Tutberidze & Tamta Sopromadze & Saba Metreveli & Lasha Arevadze & Tamar Mdivnishvili & Giorgi Tsutskiridze, 2019. "Solving non-linear dynamic models (more) efficiently: application to a simple monetary policy model," NBG Working Papers 01/2019, National Bank of Georgia.
• Ali Alichi & Hayk Avetisyan & Douglas Laxton & Shalva Mkhatrishvili & Armen Nurbekyan & Lusine Torosyan & Hou Wang, 2019. "Multivariate Filter Estimation of Potential Output for the United States: An Extension with Labor Market Hysteresis," IMF Working Papers 19/35, International Monetary Fund.