Irakli Garibashvili ირაკლი ღარიბაშვილი |
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11th Prime Minister of Georgia | |
In office November 20, 2013 – December 30, 2015 |
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President | Giorgi Margvelashvili |
Preceded by | Bidzina Ivanishvili |
Succeeded by | Giorgi Kvirikashvili |
Minister of Internal Affairs | |
In office October 25, 2012 – November 17, 2013 |
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Prime Minister | Bidzina Ivanishvili |
Preceded by | Ekaterine Zguladze (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Aleksandre Chikaidze |
Personal details | |
Born |
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR (now Georgia) |
June 28, 1982
Political party | Georgian Dream |
Spouse(s) | Nunuka Tamazashvili |
Children | Nikoloz Andria Gabriel Nino |
Alma mater |
Tbilisi State University Pantheon-Sorbonne University |
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Irakli Garibashvili (Georgian: ირაკლი ღარიბაშვილი, also transliterated as Gharibashvili; born June 28, 1982) was the Prime Minister of Georgia from November 20, 2013 until his resignation on December 29, 2015, and is a former business executive. Garibashvili entered politics with his long-time associate, the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, in October 2012. He served as Minister of Internal Affairs in the cabinet of Bidzina Ivanishvili from 2012 to 2013. Ivanishvili named Garibashvili as his successor as Prime Minister when he voluntarily stepped down in November 2013. During his time as prime minister Garibashivli, who was 33 when he resigned, was the second youngest state leader in the world, after Kim Jong-un.
From 1988 to 1999 Garibashvili attended the secondary school No. 1 in Dedoplistsqaro. From 1999 to 2005 Garibashvili studied International Relations at Tbilisi State University (TSU), where he graduated with a Master's degree. He also studied at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University from 2002 to 2004. Since 2004, he has worked with the multi-billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. He started by working for logistics division of the construction company Burji, owned by Ivanshvili's Cartu Group. He became Director General of Ivanishvili's charity foundation Cartu in 2005, a member of the supervisory board of Ivanishvili's Cartu Bank in 2007 and director of the label Georgian Dream founded by Ivanishvili's pop-star son Bera in 2009.
Garibashvili became involved in the politics of Georgia when Ivanishvili founded his political party Georgian Dream–Democratic Georgia in February 2012. Garibashvili was one of the founding members and initially headed the party’s revision committee. He was included in the party list of MP candidates for the October 2012 parliamentary election. After the coalition won the 2012 parliamentary election on October 1, Irakli Garibashvili became a party-list representative of the Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia party in the 2012 convocation of the Parliament of Georgia.