Bidzina Ivanishvili


Bidzina Ivanishvili is a Georgian businessman and politician who was Prime Minister of Georgia fromOctober 2012 toNovember 2013. He founded and led the Georgian Dream coalition, which won the 2012 parliamentary election. After the 2013 presidential election, he voluntarily resigned both his government and party positions, naming his longtime associate Irakli Gharibashvili as his successor.

Bidzina Ivanishvili was born the youngest of five children to a poor family in the Georgian village of Chorvila. His father worked in a manganese factory. He graduated from high school in Sachkhere and went to Tbilisi State University to study engineering and economics. In 1982, he went to Moscow to pursue a Ph.D. in economics at the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering.

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