Elene Khoshtaria

Elene Khoshtaria (born November 18, 1979 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian politician and the Member of the Parliament of Georgia since 2016.[1] She also is a member of parliament. From 2007-2012 she served as the first deputy minister in the State Ministry for Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia,[2] she is also a candidate in Tbilisi mayoral elections, 2017.

Elene Khoshtaria
ელენე ხოშტარია
BornNovember 18, 1979
Tbilisi, Georgia
NationalityGeorgian
EducationMoscow State Institute of International Relations
OrganizationMember of the Parliament of Georgia
Political partyEuropean Georgia
Parents
  • Gogi Khoshtaria (father)
  • Irina Guntsadze (mother)
FamilyMother of Four Children
Websitehttps://www.facebook.com/EKhoshtaria/

Biography

She was born on November 18, 1979. Graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a degree in International Security. She is a mother of four.[3] In 2002 she worked as an intern in the Moscow Helsinki Group for Human Rights and the Embassy of Georgia in the Russian Federation. Since 2004, she has been the International Relations Coordinator, Head of the International Relations Department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Deputy Head of the International Relations Department and Euro-Atlantic Integration. In 2004-2006 she worked at the Office of the State Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, as a Head of the Euro-Atlantic Integration Department. 2007-2012 - Deputy Minister at Office of the State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. In 2012-2016 she worked at the „Georgia's Reforms Associates“ GRASS.

She has been a member of the Parliament of Georgia since 2016. She was the member of the Human Rights and Civil Integration Committee and then the member of the Healthcare and Social Issues Committee. [4] In 2017, she was one of only two female mayoral candidates in the Tbilisi Mayoral Elections. She took part in the elections as a candidate from the political party "European Georgia", received 28,411 votes and took the fifth place. Right now she is the candidate of the same party in the 2020 semi-proportional parliamentary elections in Vake-Saburtalo majoritarian constituency.

References
  1. Parliament.ge (August 13, 2020). "Elene Khoshtaria - Resume".
  2. "Biography Elene Khoshtaria". Parliament of Georgia website. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  3. Khoshtaria, Elene (December 26, 2016). "Women Of Georgia - Women In Politics".
  4. Khoshtaria, Elene (November 11, 2019). "Transparency International Georgia".


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