Kakha Bendukidze
Kachaber ( Kacha ) Bendukidze (Georgian კახა ბენდუქიძე; born April 20, 1956 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian- Russian industrialist and politician (independent). Former Russian oligarch was from Juni to December 2004, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Georgia. From December 2004 to December 2007, he was Minister of State for economic reform and development. He was head of the Georgian State Chancellery From January 2008 to February 2009.
Life
Biologist
Kakha Bendukidze was born as the son of an ethnographer. As a child he regularly participated in expeditions in rural areas of western Georgia. In 1977 he completed a degree in biology at the State University of Tbilisi with honors, moved in the same year to a graduate studies at the Moscow State University, which he completed in 1980.
He was then assistant at the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. From 1985, he headed the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and animal cells founded in 1988 the company Bioprocess. In 1989 he became head of the Department of Genetics and selection at the Institute of Biotechnology of the Soviet Ministry of Medical Industry.
Entrepreneur
In 1990, Bendukidze in the economy. In 1991 he became head of the oil industry investor Nipek, 1992 Chairman of the Board of the Russian Promtorgbank and 1994 Board of Directors Chairman of the shipbuilding company Almasi.
In 1995, he acquired Uralmash, Russia's largest engineering factory in Yekaterinburg, its board chairman was. Then he bought another company of the former military industrial complex of the Soviet Union, including the construction companies for nuclear power plants Izhora Zavodij (Saint Petersburg ) and the yard of the industrial complex Krasnoje Sormowo in Nizhny Novgorod.
In 1996 he founded the holding company United Engineering Works (Russian OMZ - Objedinennyje maschinostroitelnyje sawody ), was founded in 1998 by General Manager. Bendukidze held the majority of the shares of the company. In 1998, he owned some 50 companies in Russia, Ukraine, Romania and the USA. As OMZ 2003, the only two Russian companies acquired that build nuclear power plants abroad, he came into conflict with the government. Various authorities took up investigations, reinforced controls.
In November 2003 Bendukidze OMZ sold to the entrepreneur Vladimir Potanin. Since then, he has retired from business. He initially retained 42.16 % of the OMZ shares, acquired 13% of Poltanin holding Interros. In November 2005 he separated from his OMZ - share. The remaining shares, it can be managed by a trustee. In interviews, he expressed his disappointment in the Russian economy development.
1993 and 1994 Bendukidze advised the Russian Government in the Council of Industrial Policy, founded together with the entrepreneur Ivan Kiwelidi the Round Table of entrepreneurship in Russia.
Politician
On 1 June 2004 Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania him surprisingly nominated as the new Minister of Economic Affairs of Georgia. The next day Bendukidze took office. His economic policies, he called ultra - liberal. The Soviet mentality in business, he has declared war. He wants to work in Georgia for a deregulation of the economy, extensive privatization, reduction of corporate taxes and rapid economic growth. Bendukidze got to his Russian nationality in addition to Georgian.
On 15 July 2004 Bendukidze submitted a list of 372 state-owned enterprises and possessions to be sold between 2004 and 2006. At the top of the list were the State Mint, the Georgian Telekom, the Tbilisi International Airport, the ports of Poti and Batumi, the aircraft plants Tbilaviamscheni and the iron and steel works Rustavi. The privatization policy Bendukidses sparked heated controversy in Georgia. Nationalist parties threw him a sellout of the country before, coined for it the term " Bendunomics ". In July 2004, the Minister of protesters were prevented from leaving his office building. Here he was spat in the face and damaged his company car.
On 15 December 2004 President Saakashvili appointed him minister of state for economic structural reforms. There has focused on privatization, deregulation and reform plans developed to streamline government agencies. The World Bank report "Doing Business", which measures the investment climate in over 100 countries around the world, certified him success: At the end of his tenure as minister in 2007 Georgia was on the 18th place ahead of Germany and France. Three years earlier, had stood at No. 137 Georgia.
Since January 31, 2008 Bendukidze was head of the Georgian State Chancellery. Prime Minister Nika Gilauri dismissed him on 7 February 2009. Reasons he cited not publicly. However, it is known that Bendukidze Gilauri had called during a cabinet meeting in 2004 as " idiots". Bendukidze announced that he wanted to continue intensified the European School of Management ( ESM) devote in Tbilisi, in which it holds shares of stock.