Maia Miminoshvili Explained

Maia Miminoshvili
Minister of Education and Science
Term Start:22 November 2007
Term End:31 January 2008
Predecessor:Alexander Lomaia
Successor:Ghia Nodia
President:Mikheil Saakashvili
Nino Burjanadze (Acting)
Mikheil Saakashvili
Primeminister:Lado Gurgenidze
Birth Date:1 August 1960
Birth Place:Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma Mater:Tbilisi State University

Maia Miminoshvili (Georgian: მაია მიმინოშვილი; born 1 August 1960), is a Georgian physicist and politician, Minister of Education and Science between 2007 and 2008 in the cabinet of Lado Gurgenidze.

Born in Tbilisi, she got a degree in Mechanics and Maths for the Tbilisi State University in 1988.[1]

On 2008 was named director of the National Assessment & Examinations Center until 28 May 2012, when Minister Dimitri Shashkini fired her.[2] When Georgian Dream came to the power in the 2012 parliamentary election, Miminoshvili was renamed[3] director of the NAEC until was dismissed again on 10 September 2018-[4] by Education Minister Mikheil Batiashvili.[5]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/ka/00006800/ მაია მიმინოშვილი
  2. https://www.rferl.org/a/georgian-education-officials-firing-raises-charges-of-political-persecution/24597124.html Georgian Education Official's Dismissal Raises Charges Of Political Persecution
  3. https://www.finchannel.com/~finchannel/world/georgia/75586-two-deputy-education-ministers-senior-officials-dismissed Two Deputy Education Ministers, Senior Officials Dismissed
  4. http://ajaratv.ge/mobile/index.php?m=news&id=33401&lang=en Education Minister Maia Miminoshvili and four more employees were dismissed
  5. http://www.mes.gov.ge/content.php?id=8644&lang=eng Mikheil Batiashvili has commenced systematic changes at the ministry