Vakhtang Lejava
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Vakhtang Lejava | |
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 Vato Lejava in 2010 | |
| 2nd Chancellor of the Free University | |
| Assumed office 2012 | |
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| Born | in |
| Residence(s) | Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Alma mater | Tbilisi State University (B.A.) University of Pennsylvania (M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Profession | Economist, Academic |
Vakhtang (Vato) Lejava is a Georgian Economist, the chancellor of the Free University and the head of the Advisory Board to the Prime Minister of Georgia in 2005-2007. [1]
He was Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Deputy Minister of Economy in 2004 and in 2007-2008, Deputy State Minister of Reforms Coordination 2005-2007, Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister and Head of Advisory Group on Economic and Governance Affairs in 2009-2012, and Deputy Minister of Finance in 2012. [1][2]
Vato was a leading member of Government bodies that guided a wide range of exemplary economic, structural, regulatory and business climate reforms that covered, but was not limited to: Liberty Act, sector reforms, privatization, international trade and investment climate.[1]
Vato Lejava led and coordinated swift and successful work on Doing Business reforms, resulting in Georgia becoming #8 in 2014 globally, moving from #112 in 2005 . [1][3]
He was the negotiator from Georgian Government side on the Economic Chapter of the Association Agreement with the EU; A key member of the negotiating team and the negotiator on two topics of the Georgian-EU negotiations on the DCFTA in 2009-2012. He represented Georgia in the Council of Europe GRECO (anti-corruption body), served as a deputy Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Council of Georgia. In this period Georgia moved in the Transparency International CPI Ranking from #124 (2003) to #51 (2014) outperforming some EU-member states. [3][2] From 2012 he is managing a premier tertiary education institution - Free University of Tbilisi, that has doubled its intake retaining outstanding quality and record high employment rate of the graduates. [1]
In 2014-2016 he was an acting CEO of the Knowledge Fund, established by Kakha Bendukidze, that made unprecedented for Georgia private investment fo app. 50 mln. USD into higher education. . [1]
As as partner of consulting company Refomatics (est. 2012) Vato is currently advising a number of governments in Central Europe, Africa and Asia (2011-2015). Vato was a board member of the Georgian Rugby Union (2011-2015).[1][2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Reformatics team members: Georgia
- ^ a b c [https://books.google.ge/books?id=2hDuuw2irPkC&lpg=PA23&ots=dIu6ObAarQ&dq=vakhtang%20lejava&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q=vakhtang%20lejava&f=false Celebrating Reform 2007: Doing Business Case Studies ]
- ^ a b investor.ge