Salome Zourabichvili is a French and Georgian politician and former diplomat, currently serving as the fifth president of Georgia, in office since December 2018. She is the first woman to be elected as Georgia's president, a position she will occupy for a term of six years. As a result of constitutional changes coming into effect in 2024, Zourabichvili is expected to be Georgia's last popularly elected president; future heads of state are to be elected indirectly by a parliamentary college of electors.
Zourabichvili in 2019
Niko Nikoladze and his family, 1902
Salome Zourabichvili studied at Sciences Po from 1969 to 1972
Zourabichvili with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2004
The president of Georgia is the ceremonial head of state of Georgia as well as the commander-in-chief of the Defense Forces. The constitution defines the presidential office as "the guarantor of the country's unity and national independence."
President of Georgia
Image: Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Tbilisi, 1988
Image: Eduard shevardnadze
Image: Nino Burjanadze (Tbilisi, December 5, 2003)