Zaal Udumashvili was born on 27 February 1971 in
Tbilisi, Georgia. He graduated from the
Tbilisi Zoology University in 1995 with a degree in
zootechnics. Between 1992 and 2017 and 2022-present, he was a journalist for several news outlets in Georgia, including
Second Channel and
Rustavi 2 Now he's on
TV Pirveli. Udumashvili has been a member of the political council of the
United National Movement since 2017. Udumashvili ran for
mayor of Tbilisi in the
2017 election, placing third with 17% of the vote. In the
2020 Georgian parliamentary election, he was elected to the
Parliament of Georgia as a
party list candidate. While in parliament, he was a member of the European Integration Committee. He left office on 9 June 2022. In 2013, Udumashvili was awarded the
Presidential Order of Excellence. ==References==