Tamar Ioseliani Appointed Deputy Minister of Economy

Tamar Ioseliani, the former head of the Maritime Transport Agency, has been appointed as the Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. She succeeds Guram Guramishvili, who had held the position since March 2021.

Ioseliani brings over 15 years of managerial experience in Georgia’s transport and maritime sectors. From 2018 to 2023, she led the Maritime Transport Agency and later served on the Supervisory Board of the Anaklia Deepwater Port (2023-2025, The Caspian Post reports citing foreign media.

She currently chairs the Supervisory Board of the Association of Georgian Airports and also heads the Council for the Authorization of Higher Educational Institutions, a position she assumed in 2025.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Georgian-American University and studied at the University of Southampton in 2015 as a UN and Nippon Foundation scholar. Her professional background also includes an internship at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and participation in advanced maritime programs in South Korea and Singapore. Between 2007 and 2009, she completed a corporate law and governance program at the London School of Economics.

Her 2024 asset declaration shows that Ioseliani owns a 41.6 sq. m apartment in Batumi, purchased in 2016 for $47,000. Her husband, Zurab Bakuradze, owns a 55.84 sq. m apartment in Tbilisi and a 349 sq. m plot in Dusheti. Ioseliani also holds 28,735 shares of Liberty Bank. In 2023, she reported an income of 34,332 GEL as Director of the Maritime Transport Agency and 73,368 GEL as Director of Batumi Fishing Company Georgia LLC, while her husband earned 59,130 GEL working as a Coordinator in the Government Administration’s Protocol Service.