Zurab Tchiaberashvili
- January 9, 2024
- Diplomat
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Zurab Tchiaberashvili Biography
| Name | Zurab Tchiaberashvili |
| Birthday | Jun 6 |
| Birth Year | 1972 |
| Place Of Birth | Tbilisi |
| Birth Country | Georgia |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
| Spouse | Nino Lakvekheliani |
Zurab Tchiaberashvili is one of the most popular and richest Diplomat who was born on June 6, 1972 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Zurab Tchiaberashvili, Georgian politician and diplomat (Georgian: zurab chiaberashvili ), was born 6 June 1972. After serving as governor of the Kakheti, he is now a prominent figure in opposition European Georgia.
Tchiaberashvili was elected Mayor of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. This appointment is still an appointive one at that time after President Mikheil Sakashvili fired Mayor Ivane Zodelava. Tchiaberashvili was responsible for the development of a strategy to address problems in Tbilisi’s infrastructure, including water, sewage and electric. Tchiaberashvili’s former NGO colleagues criticized him for abandoning his original plans to decentralize Tbilisi’s government.
Having a background in academia and the nongovernmental sector, Tchiaberashvili joined the ranks of the government after Georgia’s 2003 Rose Revolution, serving as the chairman of the Central Election Commission of Georgia from 2003 to 2004 and then as the mayor of Tbilisi from 2004 to 2005. Tchiaberashvili was Georgia’s permanent representative to the Council of Europe from 2005 to 2010 and ambassador to the Swiss Confederation and Principality of Liechtenstein, and Permanent Representative to the United Nations office and other international organizations in Geneva from 2010 to
- He served as Georgia’s Minister of Health, Labour and Social Affairs from March 20, 2012, to October 25, 2012.
On May 21, 2013, Zurab Tchiaberashvili and Ivane Merabishvili, Georgia’s former Prime Minister and the Secretary General of the United National Movement party, were arrested in connection to investigation into alleged misspending of GEL 5.2 million public funds on their party activists during the 2012 election campaign, leading to accusations of political vendetta leveled by the United National Movement against the Ivanishvili government.
Tchiaberashvili was one of those who decried the November 2, 2003 Georgian Parliamentary Election as rigged. In what was known as the “Rose Revolution”, Eduard Shevardnadze, the former President of Georgia, was forced to resign following protests. Tchiaberashvili was elected the head of the Central Election Commission of Georgia and was responsible for conducting the 2004 snap presidential-parliamentary elections.
Zurab Tchiaberashvili Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Diplomat |
| House | Living in own house. |
Zurab Tchiaberashvili is one of the richest Diplomat from Georgia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Zurab Tchiaberashvili 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Zurab Tchiaberashvili is a native of Tbilisi. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of Tbilisi State University (1989-1994; BA degree), and the Institute of Philosophy of Georgian National Academy of Sciences (1994-1997; MA degree). He also obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy degree from Tbilisi State University (1998). He was an Open Society Institute Faculty Development Fellow and spent two Spring Semesters in 2002 and 2003 at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies. Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School University. He graduated in 2009 from the Executive MBA Joint Program with Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA and WHU- Otto Beisheim School of Management Vallendar, Germany.
Zurab Tchiaberashvili started his career as a reporter, then became a news editor at the Georgian daily Resonance during the 1990s. He also taught at Tbilisi State University’s Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology during that period. He became active in civic society in 1997 when he joined the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, of which he was the Executive Director in 2002.
On September 16, 2005, Tchiaberashvili was approved by the Parliament of Georgia as Georgia’s permanent representative to the Council of Europe (CoE), a position which made him involved in diplomatic battles following the August 2008 Russian–Georgian war. On December 10, 2010, Tchiaberashvili was approved as ambassador to the Swiss Confederation and Principality of Liechtenstein, and Permanent Representative to the United Nations office and other international organizations in Geneva. In 2011, he was involved in the Swiss- mediated Russian–Georgian negotiations over Russia’s ascension to World Trade Organization. On March 15, 2012, he was nominated as Georgia’s Minister of Health, Labour and Social Affairs, and approved by the Parliament of Georgia on March 20, 2012. After the October 2012 parliamentary election, he was succeeded by David Sergeenko. Tchiaberashvili was instead moved by President Saakashvili to the position of governor of the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti. Subsequently, he became a leading opposition politician, with the United National Movement.
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Who is Zurab Tchiaberashvili Dating?
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