Speaker
DAVID ONOPRISHVILI
Chairman of the Insurance State Supervision Service of Georgia
Ph.D in Economics (Tbilisi, Georgia); Master of International Relations in Economic Policy Management at SIPA, Columbia University, New York, 1994.
Since 2019 he was appointed as the Chairman of the Insurance State Supervision Service of Georgia. Also, in 2024 was elected as Executive Committee member of International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), representing the Central, Eastern Europe, and Transcaucasia (CEET) region.
He was MP in 1995-1998 and Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy and Reforms. In 1998-2000 he became Finance Minister of Georgia. In 2004 -2005 was General Director/CEO of the biggest state company “Georgian Railways”. During 2006 -2010 and 2017-2018 years worked in private sector. In 2012-2015 MP and a Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Parliament of Georgia.
During his career he also worked with the World Bank, IMF. IN 2004/05 he was Adjunct Professor of Economics and taught courses on transition economies, at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, in 2004/05 and 2012.