Alexandre "Sandro" Rakviashvili (Georgian: ალექსანდრე 'სანდრო' რაქვიაშვილი; born on July 19, 1982) is a Georgian economist, professor, and politician. A declared libertarian, he is a member of the Girchi political party and has been a member of the Parliament of Georgia since 2021. Biography Early life and career Alexandre Rakviashvili was born on July 19, 1982, in Tbilisi, at the time the capital of Soviet Georgia. He studied in Russia, where he graduated from the Moscow State University with a degree in economics in 2002 and a master's degree in business management in 2004. He has a doctorate in economic sciences. Rakviashvili's career has largely been associated with the academic sector. From 2016 to 2019, he served as dean of Free University's School of Business, a libertarian institution founded by Kakha Bendukidze. He's been an economics professor at the University of Georgia since 2019. Activism in Girchi Sandro Rakviashvili joined Girchi, a libertarian political party in Georgia, in 2019, first giving economics lectures to party activists. He joined the party's governing board in 2020 and during the COVID-19 pandemic, became heavily involved in the organization of demonstrations against lockdown measures adopted by the Georgian government. During the 2020 parliamentary election, Rakviashvili was placed in fifth position on Girchi's electoral list. Though the party won only four seats at the time, it had already announced Rakviashvili as one of its elected MPs after the resignation of Salome Mujiri, who refused her legislative seat in protest of Georgia's gender-based quota in parliamentary mandates. Though he would only become an MP in May 2021, he was one of the signatories of the April 19th agreement between the opposition and Georgian Dream that ended a five-month parliamentary boycott and was part of the party's negotiation team during inter-party talks. In December 2020, Rakviashvili backed Girchi's leader Iago Khvichia and remained in the party when its founder Zurab Japaridze left to create a separate libertarian party. Member of Parliament Alexandre Rakviashvili became a member of the Parliament of Georgia on May 27, 2021, after the legislature recognized the formal resignation of Salome Mujiri, a fellow MP elected from Girchi's electoral list who refused to accept her seat in protest of Georgia's gender-based electoral quota. While electoral legislation would have required the party to replace Mujiri with another woman on its electoral list, the party chose to remove its list from the Central Election Commission's registration,