Khatia Dekanoidze | |
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| ხატია დეკანოიძე | |
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| Member of the Parliament of Georgia | |
| Assumed office 11 December 2020 | |
| Chair of the SIU Faction at the Parliament of Georgia | |
| In office 31 May 2021 – 31 January 2023 | |
| Deputy | Levan Bezhashvili Giorgi Botkoveli Nato Chkheidze |
| Preceded by | Roman Gotsiridze |
| Succeeded by | Levan Bezhashvili (acting) |
| Chief of the National Police of Ukraine | |
| In office 4 November 2015 – 16 November 2016 | |
| President | Petro Poroshenko |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Serhiy Knyazev |
| Minister of Education and Science of Georgia | |
| In office 4 July 2012 – 25 October 2012 | |
| President | Mikheil Saakashvili |
| Prime Minister | Vano Merabishvili |
| Preceded by | Dimitri Shashkini |
| Succeeded by | Giorgi Margvelashvili |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 20, 1977 Tbilisi (Georgian SSR) |
| Citizenship | Georgian Ukrainian (2015-2017) |
| Political party | United National Movement (2017-2023) Independent (since 2023) |
| Education | Tbilisi State University |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Ukraine |
| Branch/service |  Ministry of Internal Affairs |
| Years of service | 2015-2017 |
| Rank |  Lieutenant colonel |
| Commands |  National Police of Ukraine |
Khatia Dekanoidze (Georgian: ხატია დეკანოიძე, Ukrainian: Хатія Деканоїдзе; born 20 January 1977) is a Georgian politician who served as Minister of Education and Science in 2012 and as a Member of Parliament since 2020, as well as a former Ukrainian official, serving as Chief of the National Police of Ukraine in 2015–2016.
Launching her career following the Rose Revolution of 2003, Dekanoidze first served as an official within the Ministry of Internal Affairs and as a diplomat, before being appointed as head of the Police Academy to oversee law enforcement recruitment reforms. In 2012, she became head of the National Examination Center and Minister of Education and Science in the last months of the Saakashvili presidency. Following UNM's loss in the 2012 parliamentary elections, she joined the opposition, before moving to Ukraine in 2015, where she was appointed as Chief of the National Police under during the presidency of Petro Poroshenko.
Returning to Georgia in 2016, she was elected to Parliament in 2020 and joined the legislature in May 2021 after a boycott in the midst of a political crisis. She served as Chairwoman of the UNM Faction in the Parliament, the only opposition faction in the legislature, from May 2021 to February 2023. In a row with her party, she left the United National Movement on March 24, 2023.