Avtandil Jorbenadze

State Minister of GeorgiaIn office
21 December 2001 – 23 November 2003PresidentEduard Shevardnadze
Nino Burjanadze (acting)Preceded byGiorgi ArsenishviliSucceeded byZurab ZhvaniaMinister of Health and Social AffairsIn office
19 October 1993 – 22 December 2001PresidentEduard ShevardnadzeDeputy Minister of Health and Social AffairsIn office
8 January 1993 – 26 March 1993MinisterIrakli Menagharishvili Personal detailsBorn(1951-02-23)23 February 1951
Chibati, Lanchkhuti District, Georgian SSR, USSRDied17 May 2024(2024-05-17) (aged 73)Children2Alma materTbilisi State Medical UniversitySignature

Avtandil Jorbenadze (Georgian: ავთანდილ ჯორბენაძე; 23 February 1951 – 17 May 2024) was a Georgian politician who was a State Minister.

Before entering politics, Jorbenadze worked as a doctor; in this capacity, in 1992 he was called to take up the post of deputy minister of health.^{[citation needed]} He left the cabinet briefly the following year, but soon rejoined it as health minister.^[1] In 1999, he was given the responsibility for social security, and the next year that for labour.^[2] When President Shevardnadze dismissed his cabinet, in the aftermath of a controversial storming of a television station by security agents,^[3] Jorbenadze was appointed head of the cabinet in December 2001.^[2] He resigned his position during the November 2003 Rose Revolution. In 2011, he became the chairman of the supervisory board for Chapidze Emergency Cardiology Center in Tbilisi.

Jorbenadze died on 17 May 2024, at the age of 73.^[4]

References

• East, R. and Thomas, R. (2003). Profiles of People in Power:The World's Government Leaders, page 190. Routledge. ISBN 1-85743-126-X, 9781857431261.

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