Giorgi Vashadze გიორგი ვაშაძე |
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Member of the Parliament of Georgia | |
Assumed office 21 October 2012 |
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Born | 8 July 1981 |
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Tbilisi State University Georgian Technical University Harvard Business School |
Giorgi Vashadze (Georgian: გიორგი ვაშაძე) (born July 8, 1981) is a Georgian politician and a member of the Parliament of Georgia elected on a party list of the United National Movement (UNM) in October, 2012. He was also a member of the United National Movement fraction, deputy chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee, member of the Education, Science and Culture Committee, member of the Commission on Implementation of Quality and Internal Control Procedures of Audit, Financial and Economic, Legal and Organizational Activities of the State Audit Service. He left the UNM on 5 May 2016, criticizing it for "closed style of governance by a narrow circle of leadership".
Studied at Harvard Business School and has degrees in public administration from Georgian Technical University and a law degree at Tbilisi State University.
Giorgi Vashadze has an outstanding track record in initiation, planning and management of fundamental reforms. Since 2005 he was actively involved in the programs of Ministry of Justice of Georgia and successfully implemented number of projects. As the head of the Civil Registry Agency (Georgia, 2006-2010) Giorgi Vashadze initiated and accomplished implementation of biometric passports, ID cards, digital signature, personal portal www.my.gov.ge, development of the Unified Demographic Registry, visual recognition, accelerated services, remote services (online, call at home), Baby Book project etc. All these programs and projects were crucial for improvement of the services, as well as effectively eliminating corruption and raising Georgia’s international standing.
Giorgi Vashadze being a Deputy Minister of Justice was in charge of establishment of Public Service Hall (2011). The concept was based on the principle of Everything in One Place. The project of Public Service Halls was recognized as the most successful Georgian reform of 2011. Over the past years, Georgia took the leading places in rankings of the World Bank,the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Transparency International (TI).