Malkhaz Akishbaia (Abkhaz: Малхас Акшба, Georgian: მალხაზ აკიშბაია; born May 6, 1972) is an Abkhaz politician and the Chairman of Council of Ministers of the de jure Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia (GARA) from March 2006 to June 2009.

Born in Gudava, Gali district, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR, in 1972, Akishbaia graduated from Kyiv University in 1994 and finished his master's degree at University of Oxford.

He worked for the ministries of economics (1999–2001) and defense (2004) and for the National Security Council of Georgia (2004).

He resigned on June 11, 2009,[1] and was succeeded by Giorgi Baramia as the chairman of the GARA.

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