Nino Burdzhanadze
| Nino Burjanadze ნინო ბურჯანაძე |
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President of Georgia Acting |
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In office 25 November 2007 – 20 January 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Lado Gurgenidze |
| Preceded by | Mikheil Saakashvili |
| Succeeded by | Mikheil Saakashvili |
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In office 23 November 2003 – 25 January 2004 |
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| Prime Minister |
Avtandil Jorbenadze Zurab Zhvania |
| Preceded by | Eduard Shevardnadze |
| Succeeded by | Mikheil Saakashvili |
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In office 9 November 2001 – 7 June 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Zurab Zhvania |
| Succeeded by | Davit Bakradze |
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16 July 1964 Kutaisi, Soviet Union (now Georgia) |
| Political party |
Union of Citizens of Georgia (Before 2002) Burjanadze-Democrats (2002–2003) United National Movement (2003–2008) Democratic Movement-United Georgia (2008–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Badri Bitsadze |
| Alma mater |
Tbilisi State University Moscow State University |
Nino Burjanadze (Georgian: ნინო ბურჯანაძე [ninɔ burd͡ʒanad͡zɛ], also romanized Burdzhanadze or Burdjanadze, born 16 July 1964) is a Georgian politician and lawyer who served as Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia from November 2001 to June 2008. As the first woman she has served as the acting head of state of Georgia twice; the first time from 23 November 2003 to 25 January 2004 in the wake of Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation during the Rose Revolution, and again from 25 November 2007 to 20 January 2008, when Mikheil Saakashvili stepped down to rerun in the early presidential elections. She withdrew into opposition to Saakashvili as the leader of the Democratic Movement-United Georgia party in 2008. In October 2013, she ran for president in the October 2013 election. She ran against 22 candidates and ended third (after two men) with 10 percent of the vote.
Nino Burjanadze was born in Kutaisi, then-Soviet Georgia. She graduated in 1986 from the Faculty of Law of the Tbilisi State University (TSU) and afterwards pursued education at the Moscow State University from which she graduated with a doctorate in International Law in 1990. In 1991, she became a docent (Associate Professor) of the Faculty of International Law at the Tbilisi State University. At the same time, she worked as an expert-consultant in international law for the Parliament of Georgia and the Ministry for Environment Protection and Natural Resources.
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