Grigol Mgaloblishvili
| Grigol Mgaloblishvili გრიგოლ მგალობლიშვილი |
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| 7th Prime Minister of Georgia | |
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In office 1 November 2008 – 6 February 2009 |
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| President | Mikheil Saakashvili |
| Preceded by | Lado Gurgenidze |
| Succeeded by | Nikoloz Gilauri |
| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Republic of Turkey | |
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In office 20 October 2006 – 28 October 2008 |
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7 October 1973 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Independent |
| Profession | Diplomat |
| Website | [1] |
Grigol Mgaloblishvili (Georgian: გრიგოლ მგალობლიშვილი, pronounced [ɡriɡɔl mɡalɔbliʃvili]; born 7 October 1973) is a Georgian politician and diplomat who has been Georgia's Permanent Representative to NATO since 26 June 2009. He briefly served as the Prime Minister of Georgia from 1 November 2008 to 6 February 2009.
Grigol Mgaloblishvili was born in Tbilisi, the capital of the then-Soviet Georgia, to the family of intelligentsia[2]. He graduated from Tbilisi State University, in 1995 with BA and MA degrees in Oriental Studies. Between 1992 and 1993, Mgaloblishvili spent a year at Istanbul University, obtaining a Certificate in Turkish Language. Mgaloblishvili's political career has been actively linked to the Republic of Turkey as he served as a Georgian diplomatic representative to the country from 1995 to 2002 on various positions, including as an interpreter, an attache, a First Secretary and a political counselor. Mgaloblishvili returned to Georgia, in 2003, to the position of the Deputy Director of the Department of USA, Canada and Latin American Countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Prior to this, between 2002 and 2003, Mgaloblishvili was enrolled on the UK postgraduate course in Diplomatic Studies at Oxford University. In 2004, Mgaloblishvili was promoted within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to lead the Department of European Integration. In 2005 Grigol Mgaloblishvili was granted diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and on 20 October 2006, that of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.. He served as the Georgian Ambassador to Turkey until 27 October 2008 when President Mikheil Saakashvili proposed him for the position of the Prime Minister of Georgia to the Parliament of Georgia. He speaks English, Turkish, Russian and German.
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