Irakli Kovzanadze

Irakli Kovzanadze ირაკლი კოვზანაძე
Financier
CEO of JSC Partnership Fund, Georgia; Chairman of Task Force of EBRD/OECD on Corporative Governance of Banks in Eurasia;
Personal details
Nationality	Georgian
Political party	none
Alma mater	Tbilisi State University University of London
Occupation	Financier

Irakli Kovzanadze (Georgian: ირაკლი კოვზანაძე), is a Georgian economist. He currently serves as CEO of JSC Partnership Fund, a state owned investment fund of Georgia with asset value of more than $3 billion.

Work

• Professor Irakli 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 (2004-2008) and as a Chairman of the Task Force of EBRD/ OECD on corporate governance of banks in Eurasia (2007-2009);
• He has more than 20 years of experience of working as CEO in the banking system of Georgia, sitting on the boards of the leading banks in post-Soviet countries and Europe and is one of the pioneers of the challenging reform process of financial sector of emerging countries.

Additional information

• 2002 – Doctor of Economic Sciences;
• 1990 – Candidate of Sciences in Physis and Mathematics (PhD);

Bibliography

• 2016 – "The lessons of the global economic crisis and new development model formation", Tbilisi (in Russian);
• 2014 – "Modern Banking: Theory and Practice", Tbilisi (in Georgian);
• 2011 – "Systemic and Borderline Banking Crises: Lessons Learned for Future Prevention", iUniverrse Inc. New York, Bloomington (in English);
• 2008 – "Economic and Banking System Development Trends and Prospects for Countries in Transition", iUniverse Inc., New York, Bloomington (in English);
• 2005 – "Economic and banking system development trends and prospects for countries in transition", Moscow (in Russian);
• 2003 – "Systemic banking crises in the conditions of financial globalization", Tbilisi (in Russian);
• 2001 – "Problems of Functioning of Georgian Commercial Banks on the current stage", Tbilisi (in Georgian);
• 1990 – "Some aspects of dimension theory of mesocompact spaces", Tbilisi (in Russian);