Tamar Sanikidze

Tamar Sanikidze (Georgian: თამარ სანიკიძე) (born 30 August 1978 in Tbilisi) is the current Minister of Education and Science of Georgia (since October 2012).[1]

Education

Tamar attended Tbilisi State University from 1995 to 1998, earning a bachelor's degree, specializing in English literature. She received a master's degree at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs in 2000, and participated in the University of Glasgow Distance Learning Program from 2003 to 2007.

Posts held

Tamar was a leading specialist for the Naval Department of the Ministry of Transport from March 1998 to July 1999.

She has held multiple positions in the Georgian Urban Institute. From 2006 to 2009, she was the financial manager for the institute, and a purchasing manager from July 2005 to May 2006. In 2005, she was made the coordinator of the institute's Resource Management Program. She was also a financial manager for the Institute of Public Affairs from 2009 to October of 2012. She was appointed as Minister of Education and Science the same year, replacing Deputy Giorgi Margvelashvili, the current President of Georgia.[2]

From May of 2001 to September of 2003, she was the Deputy Financial Director of the Black & Veach (UK) LTD in the Tbilisi Financial Project. From November of 2000 to May of 2001, she was assigned to assess construction works for the same company.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia,Tamar Sanikidze
  2. ↑ Government of Georgia,Tamar Sanikidze
  3. ↑ NetGazeti,Biography of the Minister of Education and Science


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