Gia maisashvili biography

Profile: Giorgi Maisashvili

This is the sixth in the Messenger’s series of profiles of the seven presidential candidates.

Biography

Full Name: Giorgi Maisashvili
Party: Party of the Future
Political office: None
Date of Birth: November 24, 1962
Place of Birth: Tbilisi
Education: Tbilisi State University Faculty of Economics, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Spouse: Robin Maisashvili
Children: Ann, Shalva and Sophy

Gia Maisashvili threw his hat in the race for president this summer, one of the first candidates to do so.

He needed the extra time: the American-educated recent returnee began the race as a relative unknown Georgia, without the organizational structure some of his more politically entrenched competitors enjoy.

He has focused his campaign on Georgia’s economic situation—something which plays to his credentials—and taken a consistently moderate rhetorical tack as the election campaign has elsewhere degen