Nino BURJANADZE Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia (Georgia) Born on July 16, 1964 in Kutaisi, Georgia, Chairperson Burjanadze fulfilled the duties of the interim President of Georgia in Nov. 2003 - Jan. 2004. She is currently serving as the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia. Nino Burjanadze was elected on the post of the Speaker of the fifth and the sixth legislatures of the Parliament of Georgia in 2001 and again in 2004. She served as the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation in 2001-2002, and became a Rapporteur of the General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in 1998. In 2000 Burjanadze became the Chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mrs. Burjanadze served as Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly for two terms, 2000-2003 and 2003-2006. She worked as an expert-consultant at the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Georgia in 1991 and in the next year, she became an expert-consultant at the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Parliament of Georgia. In 1995 Mrs. Burjanadze became Deputy Chair of the Committee on Constitutional, Legal Affairs and Rule of Law and became the chairperson of the Committee in 1998. Burjanadze graduated with honours from Akaki Tsereteli School of Kutaisi in 1981 and entered Tbilisi State University, Department of Law. She then entered Moscow Lomonosov State University as a PhD student and obtained her PhD degree in Law. Since 1991 she has been Professor at the International Relations and International Law Department of Tbilisi State University. Mrs. Burjanadze is the author of more than 20 articles written in Georgian, English and Russian languages on issues related to international law and international relations; She also published a book on Legal Problems of International Organisations of New Type.