Sandra Roelofs

Sandra Elisabeth Roelofs
Sandra Roelofs in 2007
Born	Sandra Elisabeth Roelofs (1968-12-23) 23 December 1968 (age 48) Terneuzen, the Netherlands
Term	25 January 2004 – 25 November 2007, 20 January 2008 – 17 November 2013
Spouse(s)	Mikheil Saakashvili
Children	Eduard Saakashvili Nikoloz Saakashvili
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Sandra Elisabeth Roelofs Saakashvili (born 23 December 1968) was the First Lady of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, when her husband Mikheil Saakashvili was president of the country.

Sandra Roelofs was born in Terneuzen, Netherlands. In 1991 she graduated in French and German languages from the Erasmushogeschool in Brussels and in 1993 attended courses at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She met Mikheil Saakashvili in 1993 in Strasbourg and later that year moved to New York City where she worked at Columbia University and a Dutch law firm. In 1996 the couple came to Georgia, where Roelofs worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tbilisi.

From 1999 to 2003, Roelofs was a visiting lecturer of French language at Tbilisi State University and was a radio correspondent for Dutch radio. Beyond her native Dutch, Roelofs speaks French, English, German, Russian, and Georgian.

Roelofs acquired Georgian citizenship in January 2008 and is now a dual Dutch-Georgian citizen.