MINDIA UGREKHELIDZE

• Was born in Kutaisi on May 19, 1942
• He finished school #1 of Kutaisi with distinctions in 1958
• Graduated from Tbilisi State University, faculty of law in 1963
• 1963-1976 he was a junior research fellow at the Economics and Law Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia. He became an LL.D in 1974
• Since 1975 he has been an Assistant Professor of the Criminal Law Chair at Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University, he conducts a course of lectures on the problems of criminal law, criminology, law policy, international criminal law and modeling the national legislation.
• In 1983 he was appointed the deputy manager of the Science and Educational Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia.
• He was a vice-rector of the Technical University of Georgia since 1986.
• During 1988-1990 he was an editor-in-chief of the newspaper The Komunisti (The Communist), and then from November 14, 1990 - the newspaper The Akhali Sakartvelo (The New Georgia) and The Sakartvelos Respublika (The Republic of Georgia) till its reorganization.
• On October 28, 1990 he was elected the member of the Supreme Council of Georgia, and then – Chairman of the Supreme Court of Georgia on December 27, 1990. He served as a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia between 1990 and 1999
• Judge of the European Court of Human Rights between 1999 and 2008
• He has published about 70 works, among them 3 monographs in Georgia and abroad, in Georgian and other foreign languages.
• He is a member of the International Association of Judges and the International Association of Criminal Law.
• As a head of the working group for the Judicial Reform of the State Constitutional Commission and the Chairman of the Governmental Commission of Judicial Reform, he participates in elaboration of new legislation of Georgia; he is a co-author of the theoretical model of the Criminal Code of Russia.
• His authorities were terminated based on the Decree of June 25 of the Parliament of Georgia
• From May 11, 2021 - Advisor to the Minister of Justice of Georgia.