David Narmania

Davit Narmania (Georgian: დავით ნარმანია; born 7 March 1979) is a Georgian politician and the current Mayor of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. An economist with academic background, he was Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia from 2012 to 2014. He won the mayoral race in Tbilisi as the ruling Georgian Dream coalition candidate in July 2014.

Davit Narmania was born in 1979 in Zugdidi in then-Soviet Georgia. He graduated from the Tbilisi State University (TSU) with a degree in economics in 1996 and obtained a PhD from his alma mater in 2005. He worked for various governmental, non-governmental, and private organizations from 2001 to 2012 and lectured in economics at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs and TSU. He was a co-founder of the NGO Caucasian Institute for Economic and Social Research and an executive director thereof from 2009 to 2012.

In 2012 Narmania joined the Georgian Dream (GD) coalition led by the tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili and took part in devising the coalition's pre-election economic program. After the GD's victory in the October 2012 parliamentary election, Narmania assumed the office of Minister Regional Development and Infrastructure. At that time, the incoming cabinet planned to dissolve the ministry; Narmania's portfolio was considered to be temporary and it was planned to move him to the position of First Deputy Minister of Finances. Yet, Narmania served as Minister Regional Development and Infrastructure until his resignation on 14 April 2014 on the occasion of his nomination as the GD's candidate for the Mayor of Tbilisi at the scheduled June 2014 local elections.

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