Tornike Rizhvadze

Tornike Rijvadze
5th Chairman of the Government of Adjara
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 July 2018
President	Giorgi Margvelashvili Salome Zourabichvili
Prime Minister	Mamuka Bakhtadze Giorgi Gakharia Irakli Garibashvili Irakli Kobakhidze
Preceded by	Zurab Pataradze
Personal details
Born	(1989-03-25) March 25, 1989 (age 35) Khulo, Adjarian ASSR, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Tbilisi State University (BA) Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (MIB) City, University of London (LLM)
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Tornike Rijvadze (Georgian: თორნიკე რიჟვაძე; also transliterated as Rizhvadze; born 25 March 1989) is a Georgian politician and a former business executive. On 21 July 2018, he was elected and serves as Chairman of the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Ajara.^[1] Rijvadze was nominated by the ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia party. As the youngest Chairman in the history of Ajara Autonomous Republic, his nomination was approved by the 21-member legislature of Ajara. He had previously served as a deputy Minister of Energy of Georgia (2017) and, afterward as a director of a state-owned JSC "Georgian Energy Development Fund".^[2]