Profile

Bidzina Ivanishvili


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From his hilltop glass mansion in ancient Tbilisi, he’s accused of cultivating Georgia’s shift from the west over the past decade.

And, with his political party’s recent victory in the parliamentary elections, that trajectory appears set to continue for some time yet.

Bidzina Ivanishvili is the guiding force behind the Georgian Dream party, but what else do we know about the mysterious billionaire?

In this edition of Profile, Mark Coles takes a closer look at the man who keeps animals, collects rare trees, and who spent much of the 1990s in Russia founding companies.

Contributors

Tom De Waal - Senior Fellow with the Carnegie Europe think tank
Natalia Antelava - Journalist
Lincoln Mitchell - Lecturer of International Affairs at Columbia University
Tedo Jakaridze - Georgia’s Foreign Minister
Neil MacFarlane - Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Oxford

Production Team

Presenter: Mark Coles
Producers: Ben Cooper, Marianna Brain, Kirsteen Knight
Editor: Ben Mundy
Sound: Neil Churchill
Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele

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