Mirtskhulava, David Tsotneevich

In 1976 he graduated from the Georgian Polytechnic Institute. Physical engineer. In 1977-1987, engineer, junior researcher, senior researcher, leading researcher at the Georgian Research Institute of Energy and Hydrotechnical Structures. In 1988-1990 he trained at the Milan Polytechnic Institute and at the research center of the Italian National Energy Company. In 1986-2002, Associate Professor, Head of Department, Professor of Georgian Agrarian University. In 1990-1998, deputy director, director of the center for diagnostics and monitoring of energy facilities. Since 1998, Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy of Georgia, in 1999-2003 - Minister . In 2003-2006, Chairman, member of the National Energy Regulatory Commission of Georgia. In 2008-2009, the head of the geographical division "Transcaucasia, Turkey and the Middle East" at "Inter Rao UES" (Moscow), Since 2010, a partner in the Israeli Power Projects. C 2013 technical director of Trans Electrica Georgia

More than 100 printed scientific papers in the field of energy. The name of Mirtskhulav is associated with all the most complex and painful, radical structural reforms of Georgian energy. Companies such as “Georgian State Electric System” (dispatching), “United Distribution Company”, etc. were created. Since 2001, with the involvement of international financial institutions, the largest hydropower station in Georgia, the Inguri Hydroelectric Power Station, has been rehabilitated. Minister Mirtskhulava was a supporter of the privatization of state-owned companies. With his direct participation in Georgia, the first stage of privatization of energy companies took place, and such global players as AES Corpotation, Inter Rao appeared on the Georgian energy market.

Mirtskhulava was the initiator and direct executor of the transfer to the management of virtually all large energy companies in Georgia to well-known Western companies: since 2002, five well-known companies such as the Spanish Iberdrola, the Irish ESBIA, have been included in the management of the Georgian energy companies , American "PI" (Pi Consulting), etc.

The World Bank's “Reflecting on Energy Sector Reform: Lessons from Georgia” (Revisiting Reform in the Energy Sector: Lessons from Georgia, Bilingual - World Bank Working Papers, 2004 - (English and Russian Edition) [Paperback]) notes that Georgia is one of the most successful reformers in the energy sector. As many international experts note, it was these reforms carried out in 1999-2003 that became a powerful foundation and allowed Georgia to overcome the most difficult energy crisis of the 1990s in the following years.

• Georgia Energy Strategy Tbilisi 2004
• Revisiting Reform in the Energy Sector: Lessons from Georgia *, Bilingual - World Bank Working Papers, 2004 - (English and Russian Edition) [Paperback])