Irakli Kovzanadze


Irakli Kovzanadze is a Georgian economist and politician. He is CEO of JSC Partnership Fund, a Georgian state-owned investment fund with an asset value of more than $3 billion.

Career

Kovzanadze has published six books and more than 50 articles in economics, including problems of the genesis, development and manifestation of systemic banking crises, their forecasting and prevention.
Being an MP, he served as a chairman of Finance and Budget Committee of the Parliament of Georgia and as a chairman of the Task Force of EBRD/ OECD on corporate governance of banks in Eurasia.
He has served on the boards of the leading banks in post-Soviet countries and Europe and has advocated reforms of the financial sector of emerging countries.
In March 2023, the Georgian parliament removed the mandates of Kovzanadze and three other MPs at their request for not voting in favour of the foreign agent bill.

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