Alexander Kvitashvili

Alexander "Sandro" Merabovich Kvitashvili[a] (born 15 November 1970) is a Georgian and Ukrainian health manager and government official.

Having briefly worked for financial and administrative departments at the Grady Memorial Hospital, Kvitashvili returned to Georgia in 1993 and worked for the United Nations Development Programme, United Methodist Committee on Relief, international fund of the Georgian NGO Curatio, and the EastWest Institute.

He consulted various international organizations based in Azerbaijan, Latvia, Ukraine, Armenia, and Greece on the education-, healthcare- and social security-related issues.

[4] He resigned on 31 August 2010, citing "a proposal from academic circles" to be an acting rector of the Tbilisi State University, a position he took over in September 2010.

[11] On 10 December 2015 Kvitashvili stated in an interview with Ukraine Today about the refusal of parliament to accept his resignation "It doesn't matter though, I have been working since July the same hours, with the same effort that I was before".