Giorgi Margvelashvili
| Giorgi Margvelashvili გიორგი მარგველაშვილი |
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| 4th President of Georgia | |
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Assumed office 17 November 2013 |
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| Prime Minister |
Bidzina Ivanishvili Irakli Garibashvili Giorgi Kvirikashvili |
| Preceded by | Mikheil Saakashvili |
| Minister of Education and Science | |
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In office 25 October 2012 – 18 July 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Bidzina Ivanishvili |
| Preceded by | Khatia Dekanoidze |
| Succeeded by | Tamar Sanikidze |
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4 September 1969 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (now Georgia) |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Maka Chichua |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Tbilisi Palace |
| Alma mater |
Tbilisi State University Central European University Georgian National Academy of Sciences |
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Giorgi Margvelashvili (Georgian: გიორგი მარგველაშვილი; born 4 September 1969) is a Georgian academic and politician who has been the fourth President of Georgia since 17 November 2013.
A philosopher by education, he was twice the rector of the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs from 2000 to 2006 and again from 2010 to 2012. In October 2012, he became a member of the newly formed cabinet of Bidzina Ivanishvili as Minister of Education and Science of Georgia. In February 2013, he was additionally appointed as First Deputy Prime Minister. Margvelashvili was named by the Ivanishvili-led Georgian Dream coalition as its presidential candidate in May 2013 and he won the October 2013 presidential election with 62% of votes. Margvelashvili is not a member of any political party.
Giorgi Margvelashvili was born in Tbilisi in the family of Teimuraz Margvelashvili (born 1938), an engineer, and Mzeana Gomelauri (born 1933), a psychologist. Margvelashvili graduated from the Tbilisi State University in 1992 with a degree in philosophy. He continued his post-graduate education at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (1993–1994) and the Institute of Philosophy, Georgian Academy of Sciences (1993–1996). In 1998, he obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the Tbilisi State University. Early in the 1990s he worked as a mountain guide at the Caucasus Travel agency. He joined National Democratic Institute's Tbilisi office as a program consultant in 1995 and worked for it before becoming affiliated with the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA), a joint Georgian–United States educational establishment, in 2000.
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