Maya Lomidze graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Tbilisi State University (TSU), management courses of LMI, a US company. She started her career as a journalist of the Izvestia newspaper, had been working in the Turinfo tourism newspaper since 1994. From 1998 to 2002 – Editor in Chief of the Turinfo newspaper. 2003-2004 – Commissioning Editor of the Nachalnik magazine, 2004-2006 – Commissioning Editor of the Yakhty magazine, 2006-2008 – Director of the Turinfo newspaper. From 2008 to the present day – Executive Director of ATOR.