Managing Partner
Goga Jakhia
Goga holds a Master of Liberal Arts in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard University, completed on campus between 2014 and 2016, with graduate coursework in life cycle assessment, energy and environment, environmental toxicology and risk management, sustainable finance, international environmental governance, and global climate change — the same ground as the carbon border reporting, energy auditing and environmental risk assessment METRIA does now. His capstone project was a sustainability action plan for a First Nation in Canada — the same deliverable the firm builds for clients, produced in a setting where genuine stakeholder consultation decides whether a plan is worth anything. He also studied eco-entrepreneurship and sustainable marketing.
He came to it after more than a decade in risk and insurance in Canada — senior underwriter at Rand & Fowler Insurance in Vancouver, then partner and risk advisor at Umbrella Consulting — and holds the Accredited Advisor in Risk Management and Insurance designation from the American Institute for CPCU. That route shapes how the firm works: questions arrive here as risk questions — what is the exposure, what would it cost, and which part is worth acting on. His first degree, in international affairs and international law, is from Tbilisi State University.
Since 2021 he has also been CEO and partner at Next Energy, developing utility-scale solar and wind generation in Georgia. He is fluent in Georgian, English, Russian, and Megrelian.