Irine Sarishvili-Chanturia

24 December 1963, Tbilisi), is a Georgian NGO leader, formerly actively involved in national politics.

[1] A philologist by education, she graduated from the Faculty of Western Literature at Tbilisi State University in 1984.

Married to the prominent Georgian politician Giorgi Chanturia, she was a member of the National Democratic Party of Georgia (NDPG) and participated in several protest actions against Soviet rule in the late 1980s.

She called on President Eduard Shevardnadze to use tough measures against the mass demonstrations that led to Georgia's Rose Revolution in November 2003.

[2] After Shevardnadze's ouster, she resigned as chairperson of the NDPG and formed an NGO to oppose Mikheil Saakashvili's government.