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Alexi Petriashvili

Alex Petriashvili
ალექსი პეტრიაშვილი
Alex Petriashvili, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin.JPG
Office of the State Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
In office
25 October 2012 – 4 November 2014
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili
Preceded by Tornike Gordadze
Succeeded by Davit Bakradze
Personal details
Born (1970-08-24) August 24, 1970 (age 46)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Alma mater Tbilisi State University

Alex Petriashvili (Georgian: ალექსი პეტრიაშვილი) (born 24 August 1970) is a Georgian politician who served as the State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration from 2012 until 2014. He was a Political Board Member of the Political Coalition "Georgian Dream" till October 2012.

He became the State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration on 25 October 2012 after the Parliamentary Elections in Georgia on 1 October 2012, which led to the victory of the Political Coalition “Georgian Dream” under the leadership of Bidzina Ivanishvili and his allies. The Political Coalition “Georgian Dream” (GD) defeated the ruling United National Movement, led by President Saakashvili in the Parliamentary Elections of October 2012 with a 55 percent majority.

Alex Petriashvili was born in Tbilisi, Capital of Georgia, to a Georgian family of Doctors of Medicine (M.D.). Graduated B.A. in 1987-1992, the faculty of Economic and Social Geography at the Tbilisi State University, Georgia. In 2000 Alex Petriashvili graduated from the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy.

He started his professional career as a Senior Specialist at the Foreign Relations Division, State Logistic Service, Staff of the Head of State, where in the early 1994 he worked on establishing communication with offices of the Heads of States as well as on preparation of the visits of the Heads of States to Georgia.

The next step at the professional stage links to his position as a State Advisor, Foreign Policy Analysis Service, State Chancellery, Staff of the President of Georgia, where in 1995-1998 he worked on analysis of regional and security issues and political developments, preparation of talking points and analytical information for State and Official visits of the President of Georgia and the Heads of the Governments of Foreign States to Georgia.


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