Eka Zguladze

Ekaterine Zguladze was born in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia. She studied law at Oklahoma State University and eventually graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a degree in international journalism. == Career ==

In Georgia Zguladze worked for several international organizations based in Tbilisi and, from 2004 to 2005, the United States foreign aid agency Millennium Challenge Corporation – Georgia. At the invitation of the then-Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, Ivane Merabishvili, Zguladze, then 27 years old, became First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs in the administration of President Mikheil Saakashvili in May 2006. After Merabishvili's successor, Bachana Akhalaia, resigned in response to an inmate abuse scandal in Tbilisi's Gldani prison on 19 September 2012, Zguladze was appointed Acting Minister of Internal Affairs and served on this position until the opposition Georgian Dream coalition, victorious in the October parliamentary election, formed a new government on 25 October 2012. In September 2015, Zguladze said, "I'm a firm believer that Western values, Western democracy, and Western aspirations are the way for Georgia … and for Ukraine." == Personal life ==

In addition to her native Georgian, Zguladze is fluent in Russian and English. Her second husband, whom she married in 2011, is the French journalist, film director and political figure Raphaël Glucksmann (born 1979), who is the son of the French philosopher and writer André Glucksmann and a former adviser to ex-President Saakashvili. The couple has a son born in 2011. They subsequently divorced. == References ==