Elguja Khokrishvili

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Elguja Khokrishvili ( Georgian ელგუჯა ხოკრიშვილი Elgudscha Chokrishvili ); (Born May 24, 1973 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian scientist . Since spring 2018 he has been his country's ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and head of the embassy in Berlin .

Education and career

After attending school in his home country Khokrishvili went to Germany and studied at the University of Potsdam Economics . Here he made his bachelor's degree from 1998–2002 , but immediately went on to study at the same institute, for which he obtained a Master of Business and Economics in 2004 . After completing his studies, Elguja Khokrishvili became a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Department of Public Finance at this institution . In 2008 received his doctorate he here for Doctor of Economic and Social Sciences on the theme "Good Taxation and the redesign of the income and profit taxation in Georgia" . Afterwards he became project coordinator for several projects - still at the University of Potsdam -, among others on the topics: "Reform of the tax reform system: Sustainable tax policy in Georgia" and "Capital markets, banking and the public sector - exchange of experiences in politics for transition countries" .

At the beginning of the 2010s Elguja Khokrishvili took on scientific tasks in the field of macroeconomics at the Free University of Berlin . For a short time he was a visiting professor at the State Ilia University in Tbilisi .

From 2012, Khokrishvili took on senior positions and ministerial posts in Georgia, for example head of the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia (MDF), Minister for Regional Development and Infrastructure 2012-2014; Minister of Environment and Natural Resource Protection in Georgia 2014.

He was a diplomat posted to the Embassy of Georgia in the Federal Republic of Germany, where Khokrishvili initially from 2015 worked as a Counselor I. (2015) until January 2018 Ambassador designated was. Elguja Khokrishvili has been the extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador of Georgia to the FRG since March 2018. He speaks the foreign languages Russian , German and English and has already published more than 15 publications , including monographs , commentaries and textbooks in Georgian, German and English.

Khokrishvili is married, has a son and lives with his family in Berlin.

Publications (selection)

  • (together with Tanja Kirn) Will an asymmetrical system of fiscal decentralization resolve the conflicts in the republic of Georgia? Contributions to the financial scientific discussion: Special series G, working papers of the German-Georgian Working Group for Financial and Social Policy G-9, University of Potsdam, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. 2008.
  • The Georgian tax system in the process of transformation , financial scientific contributions to the discussion: Special series MG, working papers of the German-Georgian working group for financial and social policy G-4, University of Potsdam, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. 2007.
  • Fiscal Decentralization in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara . (In: Hans-Georg Petersen, Simon Gelaschwili: Sustainable Financial and Social Policy in Georgia: Working Papers of the German-Georgian Working Group for Financial and Social Policy ). University Press Potsdam, 2008.
  • together with T. Tordinava, G. Kuparadze, N. Daghelishvili, M. Dzagania: EU. Integration issues; Visegrad Countries and the South Caucasus .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MDF website (English)
  2. ↑ Information from the embassy homepage on the ambassador's career; accessed on November 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ Beckmeyer meets members of the government from Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine at www.bmwi.de; accessed on November 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ biography ...
  5. ↑ CV Duehren, J. Bonesky: The Youngest Ambassador of Europe , August 4, 2008. At www.bild.de, accessed on November 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ Two titles by E. Khokrishvili from the German-Georgian Working Group for Financial and Social Policy
  7. ↑ EU. Integration issues; Visegrad Countries and the South Caucasus (country analyzes), Tbilisi, CI, ESR, 2013 [1] .
personal data
SURNAME Elguja Khokrishvili
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Khokrishvili, Elgudscha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian economist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Georgian SSR