Alexander Kvitashvili
| Alexander Kvitashvili | |
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| 19th Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine | |
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In office 2 December 2014 – 14 April 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Arseniy Yatsenyuk |
| Preceded by | Oleh Musiy |
| Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Affairs of Georgia | |
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In office 31 January 2008 – 31 August 2010 |
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| President | Mikheil Saakashvili |
| Preceded by | David Tkeshelashvili |
| Succeeded by | Zurab Tchiaberashvili |
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| Born |
October 15, 1970 Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Political party | Unaffiliated |
| Spouse(s) | Nicole Kvitashvili |
| Alma mater |
Tbilisi State University New York University |
Alexander "Sandro" Kvitashvili (Georgian: ალექსანდრე [სანდრო] კვიტაშვილი, Alek'sandre Kvitashvili; Ukrainian: Олександр Квіташвілі, Oleksandr Kvitashvili; born 15 November 1970) is a Georgian and Ukrainian health manager and government official. He is a former Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine appointed on 2 December 2014 and was granted Ukrainian citizenship the same day. On 14 April 2016 he was revealed from his post. Kvitashvili was Minister of Health of Georgia from 2008 to 2010 and Rector of Tbilisi State University (TSU) from 2010 to 2013.
Born in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia, Kvitashvili graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a degree in history in 1992. In the framework of the Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program, he continued his education at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and obtained his M.A. in Public Management in 1993. Having briefly worked for financial and administrative departments at the Grady Memorial Hospital, Kvitashvili returned to Georgia in 1993 and worked, at various times, for the United Nations Development Programme, United Methodist Committee on Relief, International fund of the Georgian NGO Curatio, and the EastWest Institute. He consulted various international organizations based in Azerbaijan, Latvia, Ukraine, Armenia, and Greece on the education-, healthcare- and social security-related issues.
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