Irakli Kovzanadze ირაკლი კოვზანაძე
Member of the Parliament of Georgia
In office 11 December 2020 – 24 March 2023
Personal details
Nationality	Georgian
Political party	Not affiliated [citation needed]
Alma mater	Tbilisi State University University of London
Occupation	Financier Politician

Irakli Kovzanadze (Georgian: ირაკლი კოვზანაძე) is a Georgian economist and politician.^[1] He is CEO of JSC Partnership Fund, a Georgian state-owned investment fund with an asset value of more than $3 billion.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

Being an MP, he served as a chairman of Finance and Budget Committee of the Parliament of Georgia (2004–2008) and as a chairman of the Task Force of EBRD/ OECD on corporate governance of banks in Eurasia (2007–2009).^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[2]