Speaker of Parliament of Georgia
Shalva Papuashvili

Education

1998 - graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of International Law and International Relations, majoring in International Law;

1998-2002 - studied under a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Saarland (Germany); in 1999 he was awarded a Master of Laws degree, and in 2002 - a Doctor of Laws degree

Professional Experience

On December 29, 2021, Shalva Papuashvili was elected Speaker of the Parliament of the tenth convocation of Georgia;

On October 31, 2020, Shalva Papuashvili was elected a member of the tenth convocation of the Parliament of Georgia from the party list of the Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia;

On December 15, 2020, he was elected First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Culture;

On March 31, 2021 - he was elected Chairman of the Committee on Education and Science;

He is a member of the faction Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia;

Since January 16, 2021 he is a member of the political council of the party Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia;

March 27, 2021 - party Public Relations Secretary;

2003-2007 - he was a law expert at the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ);

2007-2017 - he headed the various directions of the German International Cooperation (GIZ) Law Program in the South Caucasus;

2017-2020 - he was the head of the Georgian team of the law program;

Since 2012 - he has been giving lectures at various universities;

Shalva Papuashvili is an associate professor at Ilia State University

Publications

Collection of legal special cases on the general part of the Civil Code (co-author);

German-Georgian-German legal dictionary (co-author);

New grounds for admissibility of cassation in civil proceedings;

Development of law through judicial law;

Commitment of good faith management of the joint stock company's supervisory board

Languages

English, German and Russian

Special Representative of the Prime Minister for Relations with Russia
Zurab Abashidze
European Georgia chairman
Giga Bokeria
Prime Minister of Georgia
Irakli Gharibashvili
The Speaker of the Lower House of the Indian Parliament invited Shalva Papuashvili to India
Shalva Papuashvili on Jin Shaheen: Disappointment should have been asked from us when we couldn't find an American company that would be interested in the Anaklia port
Shalva Papuashvili on the UK grant competition: I have serious doubts that this is a corrupt grant, we all very well understand who, in the end, will receive this money
Shalva Papuashvili at the PACE session: It is unfortunate that the political groups protecting Saakashvili have long been using him as a weapon against the Georgian people
Shalva Papuashvili: There were expectations that Georgia would escalate - As we refused to escalate, to impose bilateral sanctions, to close the border and the sky, some in Europe are frustrated, upset and angry with Georgia
Shalva Papuashvili: The problem is not with the person who attacked others with a campaign of humiliation and contempt, but with those who finance and incite this person
Shalva Papuashvili: At the meeting with the Speaker of the Israeli Parliament, of course, we first of all discussed the security challenges that exist in our region
Shalva Papuashvili: If extremist parties do not participate in the elections, it will be better for our democracy - an attack on elections and democracy is being prepared
Shalva Papuashvili: We have seen the grant announced by Great Britain, which shows that although the US position has changed, there are still political groups that are trying to use money to influence elections in other countries
Shalva Papuashvili will participate in the work of the 150th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Shalva Papuashvili: To this day, we have not seen any act of violence or any dignity-offending campaign condemned; failure to condemn is encouragement
Legislative amendments registered in Parliament, which provide for a ban on “LGBT marches and related colorful items”
Shalva Papuashvili: We expect only the right conclusions from the new US administration about what spoiled these relations - everything is easy to see, nothing needs to be explained or clarified
Shalva Papuashvili: We initiated new Rules of Procedures of the Parliament of Georgia - the number of interpellations of various accountable persons will double - and therefore, the Minister's Hour will lose its purpose
Shalva Papuashvili: While the British Labour Party government is sanctioning Georgian judges based solely on suspicions, as they themselves admit, the convicted and wanted Davit Kezerashvili is freely moving around London
"Transparency International - Georgia": The Western world has already sanctioned more than 200 representatives of "Georgian Dream," of whom the identities of 98 have been made public, while the rest are subject to anonymous visa restrictions
Parliament passes so-called "FARA" bill in final reading
Shalva Papuashvili: Yesterday, the Parliament building was once again fired upon with pyrotechnics—I expect embassies to condemn the attack on the building, especially since this attack took place during a protest organized by NGOs funded by them
Michał Kobosko - we hope that your government eventually would either choose the European way, the democratic way or would resign seeing the number, the size and scale of the citizens' protests