Natia Turnava
    Natia Turnava

    Member of the Board of the National Bank of Georgia, First Vice-Governor | Acting Governor of the NBG

    Date of birth

    19.10.1968



    Education

     

    Graduated from the University of Cumbria, UK in 2014 with a Master of Business Administration degree.

     

    In 2005 - 2006, she took various courses in the United States under the auspices of the John F. Kennedy Government School at Harvard University.

     

    In 1994, she graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, completed her postgraduate study and got a Ph.D. in Economics.

     

    In 1990 she graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, School of Economics.



    Scientific Degrees

     

    Ph.D. in Economics

    Master of Business Administration

    Work Experience

     

    June 2023  First Vice - Governor, Acting Governor of the NBG.
    June 2022 to June 2029: Member of the Board of the National Bank of Georgia.
    2019 - 2022: Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.
    2018 - 2019: Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.
    2013 - 2018: Deputy Executive Director of the Partnership Fund.
    2006 - 2013: Member of the Board of Directors of Industrial Group, Ltd; General Director of Georgian International Energy Corporation Ltd, Chairperson of the Board of Directors.
    2005 - 2006: First Deputy Minister of Economy of Georgia.
    2005: Deputy Secretary of the Security Council under the President of Georgia.
    2000 - 2005: First Deputy Minister of Economy of Georgia.
    1998 - 2000: Member of Tbilisi Sakrebulo, Deputy Chairperson of the Sakrebulo Finance and Budget Committee.
    1997 - 2000: worked at the State Chancellery consecutively as a State Adviser, as Deputy Head of the Financial-Budgetary Division of the Financial Department, as Deputy Head of Economic Department, and as Acting Parliamentary Secretary to the President.
    1994 - 1996: Lead scientist at the Georgian Institute of Political Science. Simultaneously, delivered lectures in various disciplines of economics at Tbilisi universities.