Maya Tskitishvili | |
Office: | Prime Minister of Georgia |
Status: | Acting |
President: | Salome Zourabichvili |
Predecessor: | Giorgi Gakharia |
Termstart: | 18 February 2021 |
Termend: | 22 February 2021 |
Successor: | Irakli Gharibashvili |
Office1: | First Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia |
Termstart1: | 21 January 2021 |
Term End1: | 18 February 2021 |
Predecessor1: | Dimitri Kumsishvili (2018) |
Primeminister1: | Giorgi Gakharia |
Successor1: | Levan Davitashvili (2024) |
Office2: | Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia |
Termstart2: | 17 July 2018 |
Term End2: | 21 January 2021 |
Predecessor2: | Mikheil Janelidze |
Primeminister2: | Mamuka Bakhtadze Giorgi Gakharia |
Successor2: | Davit Zalkaliani |
Office3: | Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure |
Term Start3: | 30 March 2018 |
Term End3: | 18 February 2021 |
Predecessor3: | Zurab Alavidze |
Successor3: | Irakli Karseladze |
Primeminister3: | Mamuka Bakhtadze Giorgi Gakharia |
Birth Date: | 2 June 1974 |
Birth Place: | Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR |
Alma Mater: | Tbilisi State University University of Economics, Prague |
Native Name Lang: | ka |
Maya Tskitishvili (Georgian: მაია ცქიტიშვილი; born 2 June 1974), is a Georgian economist and politician, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure from 2018 to 2021, in the cabinet Mamuka Bakhtadze and Giorgi Gakharia.[1] She briefly served as acting prime minister of Georgia following the resignation of Gakharia.[2]
Born in Tbilisi, then in Soviet Georgia, she got a degree in international economics for the Tbilisi State University and studied International Trade in the University of Economics of Prague and in the Caucasian School of Business. Tskitishvili worked as a manager and director in several companies of the private sector, like Georgian Airways[3] and also was the Head of the Chancellery of the Government until her appointment as a minister.[4]