Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth of Georgia
Tea Tsulukiani

Biography, according to Government Administration

"Born in 1975, Ms Thea Tsulukiani was appointed as Minister of Justice of Georgia in October 2012. Prior to her appointment, she was elected as a Member of Parliament for Nazaladevi, a single mandate constituency of Tbilisi, with 72% of the vote.

Ms Tsulukiani has 10 years of experience as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECHR) where at the same time she served as a member of the Committee for Rules of Court and as a rapporteur on the cases examined by single-judge compositions (2000-2010).

In 1997-1998, Ms Tsulukiani worked for the Foreign Affairs Analysis Center at the MFA of Georgia under the guidance of Mr A. Rondeli.

Ms Tsulukiani holds MPA degree from École Nationale d'administration (ENA) in France(Averroès 1998-2000). She also holds a Master's degree in international law and international relations from the Tbilisi State University (1997) and a Master's degree in international politology from the Academy of Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (1998).

In her capacity as a Minister of Justice, Ms Tsulukiani led bold reforms in the area of the rule of law and independence of the judiciary, human rights, open government and anticorruption. Amongst many others, she conducted complex and inclusive process in order to have the Istanbul Convention ratified by Georgia (2017) as well as to introduce the Juvenile Justice Code (2015), the Law of Georgia on Mediation (2019), the Law of Georgia on Rehabilitation of Companies (2020), the Law of Georgia on the Disabled (2020), etc.

Ms Tsulukiani was the chairperson of up to 13 Inter-agency Councils in the Government of Georgia, among them the Criminal Justice Reform Council, the Private Law Reform Council, the Anticorruption Council, the Anti-drug Council, the Anti-torture Council and the Anti-trafficking Council as well as the State Commission on Migration Issues and the Inter-agency Commission for Free and Fair Election.

In 2015-2018 Minister Tsulukiani served as a chairperson of the Prosecutorial Council of Georgia.

As of July 2018 Ms Tsulukiani initiated the new wave of penitentiary reform aiming at development of modern penitentiary and crime prevention systems.

As the Justice Minister, Ms Tsulukiani has been leading the humanitarian mission to repatriate Georgian minors from conflict areas in the Middle East to Georgia.

In September 2019 Ms Tsulukiani was appointed as a Vice-Prime Minister of Georgia.

In October 2020 she was elected as a Member of Parliament (party list) and served as the Head of the Committee for Education, Science and Culture.

On 22 March 2021 she was appointed as Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth.

Ms Tsulukiani married in 2017 and has a 4 years-old daughter.

Political Membership:

Vice-Chair of the party and Head of the Women Movement, Party of Free Democrats (May 2010-October 2012);

Member, Party of Free Democrats - Georgian Dream Coalition - (2011-2014);

Member, Party of Georgian Dream (2020-..);

Member of the Political Council, Party of Georgian Dream (2021-..)."

Former President of Georgia
Giorgi Margvelashvili
Special Representative of the Prime Minister for Relations with Russia
Zurab Abashidze
President of Georgia
Salome Zurabishvili
Tinatin Rukhadze was appointed as the Minister of Culture and Sports
"Georgian Dream" presented the first platoon of the election list
Irakli Kobakhidze: The authority of the First Vice Prime Minister will be assigned to Levan Davitashvili, and the authority of Vice Prime Minister will be assigned to Tea Tsulukiani and Irakli Chikovani
Vote of confidence to be held for new government today
The rally: "Tsulukiani should not be the Minister of Culture" is underway at the Parliament
Candidates for the position of minister are heard in the parliament
Committee discussions on new government and government program to start in Parliament tomorrow - President to visit legislative body on February 6
Mikheil Sarjveladze: No one has a reason or need to look for conspiracy theories - I categorically cannot agree with the opinion that this is a demotion, the position of the chairman of the ruling party is the most important
The congress of the "Georgian Dream" party will be held today
Irakli Kobakhidze: Saakashvili periodically tries to build his fantasies, it is wrong to make a serious comment on Mikheil Saakashvili's statements
Kakha Kaladze: The country has a worthy prime minister - as for my future, I was elected by the majority of the population of Tbilisi and I will serve the capital until 2025
Shalva Papuashvili: Irakli Beraia will not resign and no one is going to do it! Did you get an answer? Are you satisfied?
Levan Khabeishvili: Bidzina Ivanishvili is trying to destroy this country - we have to do everything in order to remove the Russian regime
In the Parliament session hall, near the tribune where Tea Tsulukiani is giving a speech, the opposition woman MPs unfurled a protest poster
Physical confrontation between the opposition and Georgian Dream MPs in the lobby of the Parliament
Irakli Gharibashvili denies reports  that Minister of Health can be replaced
Rally against draft laws on agents of foreign influence underway near Parliament
According to the Minister of Culture, the Patriarchate will be in charge of the restoration works in the Gelati monastery complex, while the Ministry of Culture will provide financial resources
Dr. Khatuna Burkadze – Georgia should peacefully return to its Euro-Atlantic path through dialogue and new elections
Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Georgia Meline Arakalian - to be frank, I think it will take a lot of time to rebuild the trust in the Georgian government