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Revision as of 17:24, 16 November 2007
Vladimer "Lado" Gurgenidze ვლადიმერ (ლადო) გურგენიძე | |
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| 1Template:4th Prime Minister of Georgia | |
| Assuming office November 2007 | |
| President | Mikheil Saakashvili |
| Succeeding | Zurab Noghaideli |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 December 1970 Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Political party | National Movement – Democrats |
| Alma mater | Tbilisi State University Middlebury College Emory University-Goizueta Business School |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Business executive |
Vladimer "Lado" Gurgenidze (Georgian: ვლადიმერ (ლადო) გურგენიძე) (born December 17, 1970) is a Georgian business executive and politician. He has served as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bank of Georgia since May 2006 and was nominated, on November 16, 2007, by the President Mikheil Saakashvili as the Prime Minister to succeed Zurab Noghaideli.
Borin in Tbilisi, Georgia, Gurgenidze has a dual citizenship of Georgia and the United Kingdom. He graduated from the Tbilisi State University and Middlebury College and obtained an MBA degree from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. From 1997 to 1998, he served as the Director of ABN AMRO Corporate Finance in Russia and CIS. In 1998, he moved to London and served in various senior capacities at ABN AMRO Corporate Finance, including as a Managing Director and Head of Technology Corporate Finance (2001-2002) and as a Director and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Emerging European Markets (1998-2000). In July 2003, he joined, as a Managing Director and Regional Manager Europe, Putnam Lovell NBF, a leading global boutique investment banking firm focusing on the financial services sector, wholly-owned by the National Bank of Canada.[1]
After the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia, he returned to Tbilisi and worked as a Chief Executive Officer for the Bank of Georgia (BOG) from 2004 to 2006. In May 2006, he was elected a Chairman of the BOG Supervisory Board. He helped the BOG make significant progress and become one of Georgia's leading banks. Gurgenidze received a great deal of publicity in 2006 when he hosted a reality television show The Candidate on Rustavi 2, a Georgian version of Donald Trump’s franchise The Apprentice.
He is reported to have always been on good terms with the authorities, particularly with President Saakashvili, and has even criticized the opposition during the November 2007 political crisis in the country.[2]
Reference
- ^ Saakashvili Reshuffles Minister of Cabinet. The Georgian Times. November 16, 2007.
- ^ BOG Chief as New PM, Media Suggest. Civil Georgia. November 16, 2007.
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