Zurab Nogaideli
Zurab Nogaideli | |
|---|---|
ზურაბ ნოღაიდელი | |
Minister of Finance | |
| In office November 2003 – February 2005 | |
| President | Mikheil Saakashvili |
| Preceded by | Mirian Gogiashvili |
| Succeeded by | Valeriy Chechelashvili |
| In office May 2000 – November 2001 | |
| President | Eduard Shevardnadze |
| Preceded by | David Onoproshvili |
| Succeeded by | Mirian Gogiashvili |
| Member of the Parliament of Georgia | |
| In office 1992 – 30 May 2000 | |
| President | Eduard Shevardnadze |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 October 1964 Green Party of Georgia (1992–1995) |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Physicist |
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Zurab Nogaideli (Georgian: ზურაბ ნოღაიდელი; born 22 October 1964) is a Georgian businessman and a politician who served as the Prime Minister of Georgia from February 2005 until he resigned, citing health problems, on 16 November 2007. In December 2008, Nogaideli withdrew into opposition, setting up the Movement for a Fair Georgia party.[1]
Early life and career
Born in
Parliament
He started his political career together with his friend,
Minister of Finance
He joined the government of
In 2001, he left the President-run Union of Citizens of Georgia party which he had joined in 1995. He was sacked, in 2002, without explanation, though it appears that he had intended to resign in protest against the policies of Shevardnadze's increasingly corrupted government (as the Minister of Justice Mikheil Saakashvili did a year before).
In a brief period of 2002–2003, he was involved in banking and investment ventures.
After Shevardnadze was ousted in the Rose Revolution of 21–23 November 2003, Nogaideli returned to government as the economic adviser to the acting president, Nino Burjanadze. He was re-appointed to his old post as Minister of Finance in February 2004 in the government of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania.
Prime minister
President
According to Financial weekly Georgian newspaper The World Bank Group and the U.S. Agency for International Development has honored Zurab Nogaideli, Prime Minister of Georgia, as top business environment reformer of the year 2007. The Prime Minister has led reforms which have catapulted Georgia from a ranking of 112 to 37th place in the World Bank Group's 2007 global rankings on the regulatory ease of doing business.
Nogaideli is married with one son.
Resignation
Nogaideli announced his resignation on 16 November 2007 due to his poor health condition. In April 2007, Nogaideli underwent elective
After his resignation, Nogaideli said he would retire from politics and later joined the Kala Capital company – owned by the soccer star Kakha Kaladze – as its chairman.
Since June 2008, he has also been a chairman of the
Opposition
After the
In 2009, Nogaideli traveled several times in Russia, meeting top Russian officials, including Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (23 December 2009).[4] In December 2009, he also met Eduard Kokoity, the breakaway South Ossetian leader, ostensibly to help release of the Georgian teenagers detained by the South Ossetian military.[5] Nogaideli's rapprochement with Moscow met with a negative response from the Georgian government. President Saakashvili described Nogaideli's Russian stance as a "sin".[6]
References
- ^ a b Ex-PM Nogaideli Sets Up Party. "Civil Georgia". 3 December 2008
- ^ RFE/RL Newsline, 07-04-20. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Accessed on 16 November 2007.
- ^ Zuran Nogaideli. The Kala Capital. Retrieved on 23 July 2008.
- ^ Ex-PM Nogaideli Meets Putin in Moscow. Civil Georgia. 23 December 2009
- ^ Ex-PM Nogaideli Meets Kokoity in Tskhinvali. Civil Georgia. 19 December 2009
- ^ Saakashvili: ‘Local Elections Huge Test’. Civil Georgia. 26 December 2009