Tornike Rizhvadze
Tornike Rijvadze | |
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Rijvadze in 2018 | |
| 5th Chairman of the Government of Adjara | |
| In office 21 July 2018 – 4 April 2025 | |
| President | Giorgi Margvelashvili Salome Zourabichvili Mikheil Kavelashvili |
| Prime Minister | Mamuka Bakhtadze Giorgi Gakharia Maya Tskitishvili (acting) Irakli Garibashvili Irakli Kobakhidze |
| Preceded by | Zurab Pataradze |
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| Born | March 25, 1989 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. 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".