Nodar Khaduri

Nodar Khaduri
Minister of Finance
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 October 2012
Prime Minister	Bidzina Ivanishvili Irakli Garibashvili
Preceded by	Aleksandre Khetaguri
Personal details
Born	6 May 1956 Tbilisi, Soviet Union (now Georgia)
Political party	Georgian Dream
Alma mater	Tbilisi State University

Nodar Khaduri (Georgian: ნოდარ ხადური; born 29 August 1970) is a Georgian academic and politician. He has been Minister of Finance of Georgia since 25 October 2012.

Born in Tbilisi, Khaduri graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a degree in macroeconomics in 1996. From 1996 to 2004, he served on various positions in Georgia's ministries of Economy and of Finance, including being Deputy Finance Minister and the ministry's parliamentary secretary (2003–2004). He then worked for the United Nations Development Programme as a national consultant from 2004 and 2008. Khaduri lectured in economics at the Tbilisi State University from 1999 until August 2012, when he accused the university's administration of dismissing him because of his affiliation with the newly established opposition Georgian Dream party led by the tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili.^[1] In October 2012, with the Georgian Dream's victory in the parliamentary election, Khaduri was elected to the Parliament of Georgia, but he was later appointed Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Bidzina Ivanishvili. He retained this position in the succeeding cabinet of Irakli Garibashvili, Ivanishvili's choice as his successor, in November 2013.^[2]

References

1. Ivanishvili's Incoming Cabinet. Civil Georgia. October 16, 2012.
2. New PM Wins Confidence Vote. Civil Georgia. November 20, 2013.