The Mayor of the city of Tbilisi Giorgi Ugulava

• Was born in 1975 in Tbilisi.
• In 1998, he completed the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of the Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University and was conferred the qualification of a teacher of philosophy.
• 1992-1994 вЂ" studied at the Tbilisi Theological Seminary
• In 1993 вЂ" worked at the I. Sukhishvili Choreographic College, at the T. Kanchaveli Author College “Nobile” and as a teacher of History of Religion at the 58^th Secondary School.
• From 1995-1997, he was a student of the Zaabruken University.
• From 1997-1998, he was journalist for “Iberia-TV”.
• In 1998, he enrolled in the post-graduate course of the Savle Tsereteli Philosophy Institute of the Georgian Academy of Science
• From 1999-2000, he was a journalist of the Fund “Inter News”. During the same period of time he worked at the position of the manager of Transparency International-Georgia programs and from May til July he worked as a consultant at the Fund “Eurasia”.
• From 2001-2003, he was the Director of the “Legal Education Association” вЂ" ALPE.In December of 2003, he was appointed to the position of the Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia.
• In February of 2004, he was appointed to the position of the Deputy Security Minister and the same year in March to the position of the First Deputy.
• From September of 2004 until April 2005, he was the state plenipotentiary of the President of Georgia in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Region.
• On the 20^th of April, 2005, he was appointed to the position of the Chief of the Administration of the President of Georgia.
• In 2001, he participated in training for newly appointed managers and also in the training on the issues of organization of labor and improvement of planning (Belgium).
• In September of 2002, he became a John Smith bursar (The United Kingdom); his theme was “Democracy, regulation of press and broadcasting at the United Kingdom”.
• At various periods of time, he was a member of the sub-council of legal education of the “Open Society to Georgia”, a member of independent council of social control of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, and a coordinator of the education sector group of nongovernmental monitoring.
• On the 12^th of July, 2005, he was appointed to the position of the Mayor of the city of Tbilisi.
• On the 5^th of October, 2006, he participated in the elections of the local government and on the 12^th of October of the same year, the Tbilisi City Council elected Giorgi Ugulava to the position of the Mayor of Tbilisi. 
• He speaks English, German, and Russian. He has a wife and two children.

The Mayor of the city of Tbilisi Gigi Ugulava has three deputies.

The first deputy – Vice-Mayor is Mamuka Akhvlediani.

The Mayor has two more deputies: Giorgi Meladze and David Alavidze.

Deputies of the Mayor prepare and present to the Mayor policy proposals concerning measures to be carried out by the sectors of the local government; they organize and oversee the realization of the resolutions by the City Council, City Hall and other government units.

The head of Tbilisi City Hall Administration is a Vice-Mayor Mamuka Akhvlediani: He has one deputy Sulkhan Sisauri Tbilisi Administration consist of the following services:

• Juridical Service
• Service of Communications with Society and Media
• Service of International Relations
• Service of Personnel Resources
• Organization Service
• Registration-plural Accounts’ Service
• Service of Material-Technical Provision
• Service of Computer Provision
• Apparatus of the Mayor
• Apparatus of the vice Mayor
• Apparatus of the Deputy-Mayor
• Apparatus of the Deputy-Mayors