Thea Tsulukiani


Thea Tsulukiani is a Minister of Justice of Georgia since October 2012. Prior to her appointment, she ran as a candidate for the Free Democrats, and was elected as Member of Parliament for Nazaladevi, a single- mandate constituency of the capital, with 72% of the vote.
Tsulukiani has 10 years of experience as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg where at the same time she served as a member of the Committee for Rules of Court and as a rapporteur on the cases examined by single-judge compositions.
Tsulukiani holds MPA degree from École Nationale d'Administration in France. She also holds the degree in international law and international relations and a diploma from the Academy of Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.
She is the chairperson of 8 Inter-agency Councils in the Government of Georgia, among them the Criminal Justice Reform Council, the Anti-corruption Council, the Anti-drug, Anti-torture and Anti-trafficking Councils as well as the State Commission on Migration Issues and the Inter-agency Commission for Free and Fair Elections.