Young leaders debate
with Giorgi Baramidze in THE ECONOMIC FORUM OF YOUNG LEADERS 2015
Giorgi Baramidze is a deputy speaker of the Parliament in Georgia and former Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of European Integration of Georgia. He has been our speaker at the Forum for many years.
Baramidze was born on January 5, 1968 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He graduated from the Department of Chemical Technologies of the Georgian Technical University in 1992. While at the university, he was a co-founder and one of leaders of the student movement. In 1990, he joined forces with other activists establishing and leading Green Party of Georgia. Following graduation from the university in 1992, he worked as the head of a department at the Committee of Human Rights and National Minorities. In 1995, he graduated from George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies and Defense Economics in Garmisch, Germany.