He is also a senior advisor at McKinsey and Co.[citation needed] Nika Gilauri was born in 1975 in Tbilisi.

Gilauri joined the government of Georgia in 2004 as a Minister of Energy and spearheaded reforms in the energy sector, turning the country from blacked out state into the net electricity exporter, eradicating corruption, introducing new legislation, new market rules and new tariff methodologies.

The move worked well for the country being the first to recover form recession reaching 6,4% growth rate in 2010.

As PM Gilauri also led healthcare reforms resulting in constructing (by private sector) more than 100 new hospitals around the country within two years time; education reforms creating healthy and sustainable competition in secondary as well as tertiary education systems.

[1] Nika Gilauri married in January 2010 the former Georgian fashion model Marine Shamugia, a Sukhumi native and a member of the beauty contest Miss Georgia–2004.