Eka Tkeshelashvili
| Eka Tkeshelashvili ეკა ტყეშელაშვილი |
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State Minister for Reintegration, Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia |
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In office November 20, 2010 – October 25, 2012 |
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| President | Mikheil Saakashvili |
| Preceded by | Temur Iakobashvili |
| Succeeded by | Paata Zakareishvili |
| Secretary of National Security Council |
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In office December 6, 2008 – November 20, 2010 |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office May 5, 2008 – December 6, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | David Bakradze |
| Succeeded by | Grigol Vashadze |
| Prosecutor General | |
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In office February 1, 2008 – May 5, 2008 |
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| Minister of Justice | |
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In office August 1, 2007 – January 31, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Gia Kavtaradze |
| Succeeded by | Nika Gvaramia |
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May 23, 1977 Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Alma mater | Tbilisi State University |
Ekaterine "Eka" Tkeshelashvili (Georgian: ეკატერინე "ეკა" ტყეშელაშვილი; born May 23, 1977) is a Georgian jurist and politician, formerly serving as Minister of Justice, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of the National Security Council, and Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Reintegration of Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Tkeshelashvili was born on May 23, 1977 in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. She graduated from the Faculty of International Law and International Relations at Tbilisi State University in 1999 and worked as a lawyer for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Georgia, and then for IRIS Georgia, a Tbilisi office of the University of Maryland’s Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector. From October 9, 1997 until September 10, 1999, she was the Chief Specialist Centre for Foreign Policy Research and Analysis in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. From June 1 to November 1, 2001, Tkeshelashvili was a lawyer at Lawyers' Committee of Human Rights in New York City, from December 2002 until May 2003, interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague, Netherlands.
Tkeshelashvili was appointed to her first government post as Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia on February 1, 2004. She was then appointed Deputy Minister of Interior on September 1, 2005 and then became a Chairperson of the Tbilisi Court of Appeals from May 1, 2006 to August 1, 2007.
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