Tamar Ioseliani, former head of the Maritime Transport Agency, has been appointed Deputy Minister of Economy, replacing Guram Guramishvili, who held the post since March 2021.
Ioseliani has over 15 years of experience in managerial positions in the transport sector. She was the head of the Maritime Transport Agency (2018–2023), served on the Supervisory Board of the Anaklia Deepwater Port (2023–2025), and currently chairs the Supervisory Board of the Association of Georgian Airports. In 2025, she was also appointed Chairperson of the Council for the Authorization of Higher Educational Institutions.
She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Georgian-American University, studied at the University of Southampton in 2015 as a UN and Nippon Foundation scholar, completed an internship at the UN Headquarters in New York, and completed advanced maritime programs in South Korea and Singapore, as well as a corporate law and governance program at the London School of Economics (2007–2009).
According to her 2024 property declaration Ioseliani owns a 41.6 sq m apartment in Batumi purchased in 2016 for $47,000, and her husband Zurab Bakuradze owns a 55.84 sq m apartment in Tbilisi and a 349 sq m plot in Dusheti. Ioseliani also holds 28,735 Liberty Bank's shares. In 2023, she earned 34,332 GEL as Director of the Maritime Transport Agency and 73,368 GEL as Director of Batumi Fishing Company Georgia LLC, while her husband earned 59,130 GEL as Coordinator of the Protocol Service of the Government Administration.
