Davit Kezerashvili (Georgian: დავით კეზერაშვილი) (born 22 September 1978) is a Jewish-Georgian investor, entrepreneur and former Minister of Defense of Georgia under Mikheil Saakashvili's presidency from November 2006 to December 2008.

[3] After migrating to Russia, he went to Israel in 1992, where he lived with his grandmother in the Kiryat Ben-Gurion neighbourhood of Holon and attended high school.

[citation needed] In late 2001, Kezerashvili became one of the founding members of the United National Movement (UNM) party, and contested an election in 2002 under its banner.

[5][6] After the party rose to power in 2003, Kezerashvili worked in the Finance Ministry from 2004 until November 2006, including a role as chair of the financial police force.

[11] At the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, the Senior District Judge Howard Riddle heard that Interpol had stated “it would refuse to provide police cooperation to Georgia” because “such cooperation would not conform with article 3 of its constitution” and that “there are concerns over the political motivation or prosecutions, and an alleged lack of due process in the context of pre-trial detention.”[11] In dismissing the extradition request, the judge stated that witnesses on Kezerashvili's behalf were “persuasive and moving” and that the “defense has provided live and credible evidence that casts considerable doubt over the basis of the case against Mr Kezerashvili.”[11] In September 2021, the Supreme Court of Georgia overturned both acquittals against and sentenced him to 10 years in prison in absentia.

[1] Kezerashvili is considered to be a major financial donor to several Georgian opposition parties, including the United National Movement, Strategy Aghmashenebeli and Droa.