Tamara Konstantin learned to play piano as a child growing up in Georgia. After attending a special music school for gifted children, culminated her piano studies at the Tbilisi Music Academy where she performed with the State Symphony Orchestra of Georgia and gave many solo recitals.
She then completed a linguistics degree at Tbilisi State University before being offered a job as the first female political commentator on Georgian television. Later she married an Englishman, moved to the UK and reinvented herself once again when she took a job in the oil industry helping companies negotiate their strategies in the former Soviet Union and Central Asia eventually rising to become Vice President of Business Development.