Bidzina Ivanishvili

Bidzina Ivanishvili
Bidzina Ivanishvili
ბიძინა ივანიშვილი
	Ivanishvili in 2013
10th Prime Minister of Georgia
	In office; 25 October 2012 – 20 November 2013
President	Mikheil Saakashvili; Giorgi Margvelashvili
Preceded by	Vano Merabishvili
Succeeded by	Irakli Garibashvili
Chairman of Georgian Dream
	In office; 26 April 2018 – 11 January 2021
Preceded by	Giorgi Kvirikashvili
Succeeded by	Irakli Kobakhidze
	In office; 12 April 2012 – 15 November 2013
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Irakli Garibashvili
Honorary Chairman of Georgian Dream
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 30 December 2023
Preceded by	Position established
Personal details
Born	18 February 1956; Chorvila, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union; (now Georgia)
Citizenship	Georgian (2004–2011, 2014–present); French (2010–present); Russian (1991–2011); Soviet (until 1991);
Political party	Georgian Dream (2012–2013, 2018–2021, 2023–)
Spouse	Ekaterine Khvedelidze (m. 1991)
Children	4, including Bera
Alma mater	Tbilisi State University; Moscow State University of; Railway Engineering
Awards	Legion of Honour - Knight (2020)
Net worth	US$6.02 billion (September 2021)
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Bidzina Ivanishvili (Georgian: ბიძინა ივანიშვილი, also known as Boris Grigoryevich Ivanishvili; born 18 February 1956) is a Georgian politician and oligarch, who served as Prime Minister of Georgia from October 2012 to November 2013.

As one of the richest men in Georgia, Ivanishvili entered politics in 2012, when he founded the Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia party and secured victory in the 2012 Georgian parliamentary election against the United National Movement party of incumbent President Mikheil Saakashvili. After serving as Prime Minister of Georgia, he left all political positions in 2013 but remained to be commonly viewed as an éminence grise of Georgian politics. After returning to politics in 2018 in a position of the chairman of the ruling party, he again left in 2021, but ultimately staged a comeback in late 2023 as the honorary chairman of Georgian Dream.

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