Giorgi Margvelashvili was born in Tbilisi in the family of Teimuraz Margvelashvili (born 1938), an engineer, and Mzeana Gomelauri (born 1933), a psychologist [REF].
Margvelashvili twice served as a rector of the GIPA from 2000 to 2006 and, again, from 2010 to 2012.