Giorgi Vashadze

Mr. Vashadze is a Georgian politician and international policy expert who served as a member of the Parliament of Georgia from 2012 to 2016 and from 2020 up to the present. He is a founder and international key expert of the Innovation and Development Foundation (IDF), an international think-tank that is committed to designing public policy solutions and reform packages. In May 2016, Giorgi Vashadze founded a political party New Georgia Since 2020, he has been chairperson of the political party Strategy Aghmashenebeli. In 2023, with The United National Movement, he formed the largest opposition unity in Georgia. As the campaign chairperson of the coalition, he is responsible for the election campaign and political activities of the coalition. During his term in office at the Civil Registry Agency, Giorgi Vashadze initiated and implemented many landmark projects at the intersection of public administration and e-governance. The main reform was the introduction of ID cards that substituted for previous forms of citizen identification and formed a strong basis for realizing other breakthrough reforms concerning biometric passports, digital signature, citizen portal - My.gov.ge, unified Demographic Registry, visual recognition, and accelerated services. Giorgi Vashadze’s projects had significantly contributed to augmenting corrupted practices that dominated the public sector, and aided Georgia’s impeccable fight and win over corruption.