Avtandil Jorbenadze

Avtandil Jorbenadze is a former State Minister of Georgia.

Avtandil Jorbenadze
ავთანდილ ჯორბენაძე
State Minister of Georgia
In office
21 December 2001 – 7 November 2003
PresidentEduard Shevardnadze
Nino Burjanadze (acting)
Preceded byGiorgi Arsenishvili
Succeeded byZurab Zhvania
Personal details
Born (1951-02-23) 23 February 1951
Chibati, Lanchkhuti District, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union

Before entering politics, Jorbenadze worked as a doctor; in this capacity, in 1992 he was called to take up the post of deputy minister of health. He left the cabinet briefly the following year, but soon rejoined it as health minister.[1] In 1999, he was given the responsibility for social security, and the next year that for labour.[2] When President Shevardnadze dismissed his cabinet, in the aftermath of a controversial storming of a television station by security agents,[3] Jorbenadze was appointed head of the cabinet in December 2001.[2] He resigned his position during the November 2003 Rose Revolution. In 2011, he became the chairman of the supervisory board for Chapidze Emergency Cardiology Center in Tbilisi.

References
  • East, R. and Thomas, R. (2003). Profiles of People in Power:The World's Government Leaders, page 190. Routledge. ISBN 1-85743-126-X, 9781857431261.

Notes
  1. "Military reverse for Gamsakhurdia rebels". Keesing's Record of World Events. 39: 39695. October 1993.
  2. "Georgian Parliament endorses Jorbenadze's appointment as minister of state". Iprinda news agency. 22 December 2001.
  3. Wines, Michael (2 November 2001). "TV Station Raid in Georgia Leads to Protests and Cabinet's Ouster". The New York Times.


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