Tornike Rijvadze | |
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5th Chairman of the Government of Adjara | |
Assumed office 21 July 2018 | |
President | Giorgi Margvelashvili Salome Zourabichvili |
Prime Minister | Mamuka Bakhtadze Giorgi Gakharia Irakli Garibashvili Irakli Kobakhidze |
Preceded by | Zurab Pataradze |
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Born | Khulo, Adjarian ASSR, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | March 25, 1989
Alma mater | Tbilisi State University (BA) Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (MIB) City, University of London (LLM) |
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Tornike Rijvadze (Georgian: თორნიკე რიჟვაძე; also transliterated as Rizhvadze; born 25 March 1989) is a Georgian politician and a former business executive. On 21 July 2018, he was elected and serves as Chairman of the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Ajara.[1] Rijvadze was nominated by the ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia party. As the youngest Chairman in the history of Ajara Autonomous Republic, his nomination was approved by the 21-member legislature of Ajara. He had previously served as a deputy Minister of Energy of Georgia (2017) and, afterward as a director of a state-owned JSC "Georgian Energy Development Fund".[2]